In article <Pine.NEB.4.05.9906111400260.29630-100000@behemoth.e33.dreo.dnd.ca>,
Claude Marinier <claude.marinier@dreo.dnd.ca> wrote:
>'ls' is normally aliased to 'ls -AF'; this will append a "*" character to
>the script file's name since it is executable. I suspect that the "*"
>character is somehow fed back into 'ls' which then list both configure and
>configure.in.
>
>I can make it work by adding 'unalias ls' before the offending section.  
>That means it's an 'sh' initialisation problem.
>
>Since most other things work well, and I only had a passing interest in
>GLib 1.2.3, and I have other things to do, I give up.
>
>Thanks for all the good suggestions.

Well, /bin/ls avoids the alias and always works

christos