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Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 08:47:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Ash feature causing defect in configure scripts.
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BTW, if you have a configure script that exhibits this behavior the workaround
is to do `bash ../configure --prefix=/your/path'.

--- Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
> I've found that sh.exe has doesn't execute the following in a subshell and
> thus
> affects the parent.  This has an affect on some shell scripts that expect
> that
> the command doesn't affect the parent and IMO I don't think it should either.
> 
> Feature/defect:
> 
> `cd /` will actually change the directory of the current process when what is
> intended is to check the noise returning from the subprocess.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> =====
> ---
>    Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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