Subject: bug#20733: coreutils build problem

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2015 07:24:02 -0700

Michael Felt wrote:
> root@x065:[/data/prj/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.23]make V=1
>          rm -f src/coreutils.h
>          for prog in ; do         prog=`basenam

Yes, it looks like something went wrong in your build process and you're using a 
Makefile.in generated from unpatched sources.  I just now built a distribution 
tarball from the bleeding edge sources, a tarball that shouldn't have this 
problem; can you give it a try?  It's here:

http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~eggert/coreutils-8.23.209-7eaf8.tar.xz