inetutils-1.4.0a: VPATH/srcdir problem in config.status?

[Volker Borchert]

Trying to build inetutils-1.4.0a on SunOS 5.8 in a subdirectory of the
package main directory:

config.status: creating libls/Makefile
config.status: creating libicmp/Makefile
config.status: creating ping/Makefile
./config.status: cd: ../../include: No such file or directory
config.status: creating include/confpaths.h
config.status: creating headers/Makefile
config.status: creating doc/Makefile
config.status: creating doc/rfc/Makefile
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: linking ../glob/glob.h to include/glob.h
./config.status: cd: ../../include: No such file or directory
config.status: linking ../glob/fnmatch.h to include/fnmatch.h
./config.status: cd: ../../include: No such file or directory
config.status: linking ../headers/crypt.h to include/crypt.h
./config.status: cd: ../../include: No such file or directory
config.status: linking ../headers/arpa/telnet.h to include/arpa/telnet.h
./config.status: cd: ../../../include/arpa: No such file or directory
config.status: linking ../headers/arpa/ftp.h to include/arpa/ftp.h
./config.status: cd: ../../../include/arpa: No such file or directory
config.status: linking ../headers/arpa/tftp.h to include/arpa/tftp.h
./config.status: cd: ../../../include/arpa: No such file or directory
config.status: linking ../headers/protocols/talkd.h to include/protocols/talkd.h
./config.status: cd: ../../../include/protocols: No such file or directory
config.status: linking ../headers/tftpsubs.h to include/tftpsubs.h
./config.status: cd: ../../include: No such file or directory
config.status: linking ../headers/osockaddr.h to include/osockaddr.h
./config.status: cd: ../../include: No such file or directory
config.status: linking ../headers/obstack.h to include/obstack.h
./config.status: cd: ../../include: No such file or directory
config.status: linking ../headers/getopt.h to include/getopt.h
./config.status: cd: ../../include: No such file or directory
config.status: linking ../headers/err.h to include/err.h
./config.status: cd: ../../include: No such file or directory
config.status: linking ../headers/syslog-int.h to include/syslog-int.h
./config.status: cd: ../../include: No such file or directory
config.status: executing depfiles commands
Skylla:[/gaia_0h/freeware/inetutils-1.4.0a/sun4u-sun-sunos5.8] 10 $ 

Build succeeds anyway.

Regards
        Volker Borchert
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