diff --git a/runtime/tutor/configure b/runtime/tutor/configure
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+#! /bin/sh
+
+# This is just a stub for the Unix configure script, to provide support for
+# doing "./configure" in the top Vim directory.
+
+cd src && exec ./configure "$@"