coreutils problem

[Richard B. Pyne]

I am experienceing a problem with coreutils.

On a new install of lunar, when doing the rebuild, coreutils 
hangs in a loop (99% cpu) at:

checking whether getcwd properly handles paths longer than 
PATH_MAX...

The machine is an Athlon XP 3000+ with 512 Meg RAM
Default module: lunar

Optimizations are set to:
GCC version 3x
-pipe
Platform x86
Optimization fast -O1
CPU AthlonXP
No Speed optimizations
Features: MMX SSE dnow
Floating Point: Both
Strip

Any insights or suggestions are welcome.

--Richard