problem with dejagnu and amd automounter

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < m2hg747a79.fsf@altera.gaithersburg.md.us >you write:
  > "Joseph H. Buehler" <jbuehler@hekimian.com> writes:
  > 
  > > Dejagnu does not interact well with the amd automounter.  The problem
  > > seems to be that /usr/local/bin/../share/dejagnu/runtest.exp is not a
  > > good path to try when /usr/local is an automount point.
  > 
  > Here's a patch to runtest to fix this.  "make check" works with this
  > patch applied.
  > 
  > Don't know how portable "dirname" is; the existing script seems to
  > prefer sed.
dirname is not really portable.  Can you rewrite this using sed?

jeff