+# Test whether this shell is capable of parameter substring processing.
+( option='a/b'; : ${option#*/} ) 2>/dev/null || {
+ echo "
+The shell interpreting '$0' is lacking some required features.
+
+To work around this problem you may try to execute:
+
+ ksh $0 $*
+ or
+ bash $0 $*
+"
+ exit 1
+}
+
+# Store original IFS value so it can be changed (and restored) in many places.
+readonly DEFAULT_IFS="$IFS"
+
+srcdir=$(dirname "$0")
+
+subdirs="util compat lib parse-time-string completion doc emacs"
+subdirs="${subdirs} performance-test test test/test-databases"
+
+# For a non-srcdir configure invocation (such as ../configure), create
+# the directory structure and copy Makefiles.
+if [ "$srcdir" != "." ]; then
+
+ for dir in . ${subdirs}; do
+ mkdir -p "$dir"
+ cp "$srcdir"/"$dir"/Makefile.local "$dir"
+ cp "$srcdir"/"$dir"/Makefile "$dir"
+ done
+
+ # Easiest way to get the test suite to work is to just copy the
+ # whole thing into the build directory.
+ cp -a "$srcdir"/test/* test
+
+ # Emacs only likes to generate compiled files next to the .el files
+ # by default so copy these as well (which is not ideal0.
+ cp -a "$srcdir"/emacs/*.el emacs
+fi
+