diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 080ed2d2d2..0e57d7fbef 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2000-07-23  Michael Sokolov  <msokolov@ivan.Harhan.ORG>
+
+	* configure (topsrcdir): Don't use dirname.
+
 2000-07-20  Jason Merrill  <jason@redhat.com>
 
 	* configure.in: Remove all references to libg++ and librx.
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 5bb72227d9..dfc176263c 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -518,7 +518,8 @@ fi
 
 configsub=`echo ${progname} | sed 's/configure$/config.sub/'`
 moveifchange=`echo ${progname} | sed 's/configure$/move-if-change/'`
-topsrcdir=`cd \`dirname ${progname}\`; pwd`
+## the sed command below emulates the dirname command
+topsrcdir=`cd \`echo ${progname} | sed -e 's,[^/]*$,,;s,/$,,;s,^$,.,'\`; pwd`
 
 
 # this is a hack.  sun4 must always be a valid host alias or this will fail.