[coreutils-6.9] ls bug: ls failing to sort alphabetically with and without options

[Wilber Washbucket]

My distro is ClarkConnect Community Edition release 4.0 (kernel
2.6.9-42.cc).

I noticed that ls was failing to sort alphabetically so I grabbed the latest
version of coretuils and compiled it:
]# wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.9.tar.gz
]# tar xvfz coreutils-6.9.tar.gz
]# cd coreutils-6.9