coreutils 5.0 install hang

[Simon Brenner]

when doing a lin coreutils (or lunar renew - problem seems unrelated to 
how the installation is started), the configure script hangs at the 
getcwd tests.. If I leave the installation running for a few minutes and 
then hit Ctrl-C (or kill the conftest process), I get some error 
messages about "Could not delete ...: No space left on device" (seems 
that tmpfs is a little crooked in some places..), and watching df when 
the installation is still running I could see that all the 256meg quota 
for /tmp is filled, by a 256meg installwatch log.

I inspected the tail of the installwatch log, and it seems that the test 
program has gotten stuck in a loop trying to rmdir(..) folders. The test 
program creates lots and lots of nested subdirectories named confdir3, 
to test the behaviour of getcwd, then backs out and rmdirs each 
subfolder one after one: /usr/src/coreutils/confdir3/confdir3/....., 
/usr/src/corutils/confdir3, /usr/src/confdir3, /usr/confdir3, /confdir3, 
and it seems to get stuck on that last folder, trying to delete it over 
and over...