Worked for me ~ an hour ago:
ls -go octave/gnulib/
total 4776
drwxrwxr-x 4 4096 Aug 1 14:59 build-aux
-rw-rw-r-- 1 3241 Aug 1 14:59
cfg.mk-rw-rw-r-- 1 4249372 Aug 1 14:59 ChangeLog
-rwxrwxr-x 1 2366 Aug 1 14:59 check-copyright
-rwxrwxr-x 1 7725 Aug 1 14:59 check-module
drwxrwxr-x 2 4096 Aug 1 14:59 config
-rw-rw-r-- 1 1015 Aug 1 14:59 COPYING
-rw-rw-r-- 1 4743 Aug 1 14:59 DEPENDENCIES
drwxrwxr-x 8 4096 Aug 1 14:59 doc
-rwxrwxr-x 1 256352 Aug 1 14:59 gnulib-tool
drwxrwxr-x 14 36864 Aug 1 14:59 lib
drwxrwxr-x 2 24576 Aug 1 14:59 m4
-rw-rw-r-- 1 6014 Aug 1 14:59 Makefile
drwxrwxr-x 15 57344 Aug 1 14:59 modules
-rwxrwxr-x 1 80332 Aug 1 14:59
MODULES.html.sh-rw-rw-r-- 1 39982 Aug 1 14:59 NEWS
-rwxrwxr-x 1 10169 Aug 1 14:59 posix-modules
-rw-rw-r-- 1 183 Aug 1 14:59 README
-rw-rw-r-- 1 4566 Aug 1 14:59 STATUS-libposix
drwxrwxr-x 15 36864 Aug 1 14:59 tests
drwxrwxr-x 2 4096 Aug 1 14:59 top
-rw-rw-r-- 1 6775 Aug 1 14:59 users.txt
Dmitri.
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