egcs installation bug/problem

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Apr  2, 1999, Ralf Canis <ralf@silicon.org> wrote:

> Reason therefor is that "cd include" echos the full pathname of the directory
> that bash changes to due to CDPATH; hence the created tar file has one extra
> line at the beginning and extraction fails.

Although it's debatable whether bash should search CDPATH before
trying the specified directory, this consistent PATH search.

> I think "(unset CDPATH ; cd include; tar ...." should work too.

Unfortunately, `unset' isn't portable.  The attached patch should take 
care of it.  I'm installing it on the grounds of the `obviously
correct' rule.

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