tron@lyssa.owl.de (Matthias Scheler) writes:
> If a shell script used "cd" within a command substitution the working
> directory of the calling shell is changed.

Looks like you are trying to make the new a2ps version-4.12.

The configure script in the following tarfile fails a half a dozen
different ways when using netbsd-current's /bin/sh, but works fine
when using /usr/pkg/bin/bash as the shell.

    http://www-inf.enst.fr/~demaille/ftp/a2ps/a2ps-4.12.tar.gz

-wolfgang
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