--- a/configure	Mon Feb 24 12:16:58 2014 +0100
+++ b/configure	Mon Feb 24 13:29:26 2014 +0100
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+# Copyright (c) 2012, 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
 # DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
 #
 # This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -25,5 +25,10 @@
 # This is a thin wrapper which will call the real configure script, and
 # make sure that is called using bash.
 
+# Get an absolute path to this script, since that determines the top-level directory.
 this_script_dir=`dirname $0`
-bash $this_script_dir/common/autoconf/configure "$@"
+this_script_dir=`cd $this_script_dir > /dev/null && pwd`
+
+# Delegate to wrapper, forcing wrapper to believe $0 is this script by using -c.
+# This trick is needed to get autoconf to co-operate properly.
+bash -c ". $this_script_dir/common/autoconf/configure" $this_script_dir/configure CHECKME $this_script_dir "$@"