ls (GNU coreutils) 6.12 bug: -d or --directory switch broken

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Hi,

I installed this version of coreutils to get proper accent support in french 
pathnames, but the ls command for 
managing directories silently fails.

I am kind of surprised no one noticed or that there is no regression test for 
such a bug, and that it was already 
noticed earlier. Am I alone on this one?

My environment settings in the bash shell are:
SHELL=/opt/local/bin/bash
TERM=xterm-color
OLDPWD=/usr/local
LC_ALL=fr_CH.UTF-8
USER=root
PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
PWD=/usr/local/bin
LANG=fr_CH.UTF-8
LESSCHARSET=utf-8
SHLVL=1
HOME=/var/root
LC_CTYPE=fr_CH.UTF-8
DISPLAY=:0
_=/opt/local/bin/printenv
__CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING=0x0:0:91


I installed with a classic:

 ./configure; make
sudo make install

It is located at /opt/local/bin/ls

The shell is:
powerbook-g4-15-de-schneider:/usr/local/bin root# bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.48(1)-release (powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.0)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Is there any kind of workaround or is there a newer version that fixed this?

Thanks,

Gerold Rupprecht
Geneva, Switzerland