root@x065:[/data/prj/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.23]make V=1
        rm -f src/coreutils.h
        for prog in ; do         prog=`basename $prog`;                          main=`echo $prog | tr '[' '_'`;                         echo "SINGLE_BINARY_PROGRAM(\"$prog\", $main)";         done | sort > src/coreutils.ht
/bin/sh: 0403-057 Syntax error at line 1 : `;' is not expected.
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 2.


Stop.
root@x065:[/data/prj/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.23]


On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
Michael Felt wrote:
   GEN      src/coreutils.h
/bin/sh: 0403-057 Syntax error at line 1 : `;' is not expected.
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 2.

This looks like the coreutils patch wasn't properly propagated somehow.  What's the output of 'make V=1'?