I installed the following patch to sync coreutils from gnulib:
2004-12-16 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* config/mdate-sh: Sync from gnulib.
--- config/mdate-sh 11 Nov 2003 07:13:26 -0000 1.4
+++ config/mdate-sh 17 Dec 2004 05:23:44 -0000 1.5
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
#!/bin/sh
# Get modification time of a file or directory and pretty-print it.
-scriptversion=2003-11-09.00
+scriptversion=2004-12-08.12
-# Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# written by Ulrich Drepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, June 1995
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ fi
# words should be skipped to get the date.
# On HPUX /bin/sh, "set" interprets "-rw-r--r--" as options, so the "x" below.
-set - x`$ls_command /`
+set x`ls -l -d /`
# Find which argument is the month.
month=
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ do
done
# Get the extended ls output of the file or directory.
-set - x`eval "$ls_command \"\$save_arg1\""`
+set x`eval "$ls_command \"\$save_arg1\""`
# Remove all preceding arguments
eval $command
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