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diff --git a/tests/run-tests.sh b/tests/run-tests.sh
index 7e96014..6fe86dd 100644
--- a/tests/run-tests.sh
+++ b/tests/run-tests.sh
@@ -13,8 +13,14 @@
 # absolutely no warranty. See the COPYING and CREDITS files for
 # more information.
 
-# how we invoke SBCL
-export SBCL="${1:-../src/runtime/sbcl --core ../output/sbcl.core --noinform --sysinit /dev/null --userinit /dev/null --noprint --noprogrammer}"
+# how we invoke SBCL in the tests
+#
+# Until sbcl-0.6.12.8, the shell variable SBCL was bound to a relative
+# pathname, but now we take care to bind it to an absolute pathname (still
+# generated relative to `pwd` in the tests/ directory) so that tests
+# can chdir before invoking SBCL and still work.
+export SBCL="${1:-`pwd`/../src/runtime/sbcl --core `pwd`/../output/sbcl.core --noinform --sysinit /dev/null --userinit /dev/null --noprint --noprogrammer}"
+echo /running tests on SBCL=\'$SBCL\'
 
 # "Ten four" is the closest numerical slang I can find to "OK", so
 # it's the Unix status value that we expect from a successful test.
@@ -28,7 +34,7 @@ tenfour () {
     if [ $? = 104 ]; then
 	echo ok
     else
-	echo test failed: $?
+	echo test failed, expected 104 return code, got $?
 	exit 1
     fi
 }
@@ -118,3 +124,4 @@ done
 # work.)
 
 echo '//apparent success (reached end of run-tests.sh normally)'
+date