Unable to build current CVS: coreutils.pot not built

[Ed Avis]

(I hope this list is the right place to report bugs in current CVS.)

I got a clean checkout, configured with './configure' and tried to
build with 'make'.  The build fails with

make coreutils.pot-update
make[4]: Entering directory `/home/ed/cvs_working/coreutils/po'
: --default-domain=coreutils --directory=.. \
  --add-comments=TRANSLATORS: --keyword=_ --keyword=N_
--from-code=UTF-8 \
  --files-from=./POTFILES.in \
  --copyright-holder='Free Software Foundation, Inc.' \
  --msgid-bugs-address='address@hidden'
test ! -f coreutils.po || { \
  if test -f ./coreutils.pot; then \
    sed -f remove-potcdate.sed < ./coreutils.pot > coreutils.1po && \
    sed -f remove-potcdate.sed < coreutils.po > coreutils.2po && \
    if cmp coreutils.1po coreutils.2po >/dev/null 2>&1; then \
      rm -f coreutils.1po coreutils.2po coreutils.po; \
    else \
      rm -f coreutils.1po coreutils.2po ./coreutils.pot && \
      mv coreutils.po ./coreutils.pot; \
    fi; \
  else \
    mv coreutils.po ./coreutils.pot; \
  fi; \
}
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/ed/cvs_working/coreutils/po'
/usr/bin/msgmerge --update af.po coreutils.pot
/usr/bin/msgmerge: error while opening "coreutils.pot" for reading: No
such file or directory
make[3]: *** [af.po] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/ed/cvs_working/coreutils/po'
make[2]: *** [stamp-po] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ed/cvs_working/coreutils/po'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ed/cvs_working/coreutils'
make: *** [all] Error 2


If you want I can send the whole build log, config.log and so on.  I
am running Red Hat Linux 9 but with some updated packages including
coreutils-5.2.0.

-- 
Ed Avis <address@hidden>