On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 01:15:58PM -0500, Will Andrews wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 10:17:49AM -0700, Paul Eggert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > Perhaps you're running 'configure' as root but the shell-script as
> > non-root?  That might explain matters if the source is mounted via NFS
> > without root-over-the-wire privileges.
> 
> Nope.  I tested configure on /tmp (local disk).  It's not a NFS
> problem, it would seem.  Both were tested non-root.

Around the code in configure that runs `pwd`, why not drop in a call
to /bin/sh (or whatever shell is running configure) and run pwd
manually and try to determine the problem?

-- 
albert chin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

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