--- configure.in.orig	2009-03-27 17:22:53.000000000 +0100
+++ configure.in	2009-03-27 17:21:14.000000000 +0100
@@ -3602,9 +3602,9 @@
 
   dnl They changed -f[no-]handle-exceptions to -f[no-]exceptions in g++ 2.8
   AC_CACHE_VAL(ac_cv_cxx_exceptions_flags,
-  [echo "int main() { return 0; }" | cat > conftest.C
+  [echo "int main() { return 0; }" > conftest.C
 
-  ${CXX-g++} ${CXXFLAGS} -c -fno-handle-exceptions conftest.C > conftest.out 2>&1
+  ${CXX-g++} ${CXXFLAGS} -c -fno-handle-exceptions conftest.C 2> conftest.out
 
   if egrep "warning.*renamed" conftest.out >/dev/null; then
     ac_cv_cxx_exceptions_flags=${_COMPILER_PREFIX}-fno-exceptions
--- configure.orig	2009-03-27 17:25:49.000000000 +0100
+++ configure	2009-03-27 17:24:08.000000000 +0100
@@ -11210,9 +11210,9 @@
     if eval "test \"`echo '$''{'ac_cv_cxx_exceptions_flags'+set}'`\" = set"; then
   echo $ac_n "(cached) $ac_c" 1>&6
 else
-  echo "int main() { return 0; }" | cat > conftest.C
+  echo "int main() { return 0; }" > conftest.C
 
-  ${CXX-g++} ${CXXFLAGS} -c -fno-handle-exceptions conftest.C > conftest.out 2>&1
+  ${CXX-g++} ${CXXFLAGS} -c -fno-handle-exceptions conftest.C 2> conftest.out
 
   if egrep "warning.*renamed" conftest.out >/dev/null; then
     ac_cv_cxx_exceptions_flags=${_COMPILER_PREFIX}-fno-exceptions