diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 8eeaf5b8d85..155f5dd8a41 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2000-08-01  Alexandre Oliva  <aoliva@redhat.com>
+
+	* configure.in (qCXX_FOR_TARGET): Use echo instead of expr.
+
 2000-07-31  Alexandre Oliva  <aoliva@redhat.com>
 
 	* configure.in (qCXX_FOR_TARGET): Quote `&' characters in
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 2df5d1f306c..98ccdccfe69 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -1314,7 +1314,7 @@ case $CXX_FOR_TARGET in
 *' $(FLAGS_FOR_TARGET)') ;;
 *) CXX_FOR_TARGET=$CXX_FOR_TARGET' $(FLAGS_FOR_TARGET)' ;;
 esac
-qCXX_FOR_TARGET=`expr "x$CXX_FOR_TARGET" : 'x\(.*\)' | sed 's,&,\\\&,g'`
+qCXX_FOR_TARGET=`echo "$CXX_FOR_TARGET" | sed 's,&,\\\&,g'`
 
 targargs="--cache-file=../config.cache --host=${target_alias} --build=${build_alias} ${targargs}"
 sed -e "s:^TARGET_CONFIGDIRS[ 	]*=.*$:TARGET_CONFIGDIRS = ${target_configdirs}:" \