diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 511b6e865..5e7d2dc7d 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 20000610
  - (djm) Minor doc tweaks
+ - (djm) Fix for configure on bash2 from Jim Knoble <jmknoble@jmknoble.cx>
 
 20000609
  - (djm) Patch from Kenji Miyake <kenji@miyake.org> to disable utmp usage
diff --git a/aclocal.m4 b/aclocal.m4
index 16345e122..dfa2d0a12 100644
--- a/aclocal.m4
+++ b/aclocal.m4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-dnl $Id: aclocal.m4,v 1.2 2000/05/08 10:49:37 damien Exp $
+dnl $Id: aclocal.m4,v 1.3 2000/06/10 06:51:33 djm Exp $
 dnl
 dnl OpenSSH-specific autoconf macros
 dnl
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ AC_DEFUN(OSSH_CHECK_HEADER_FOR_FIELD, [
 			eval "$ossh_varname=no" dnl
 		]) dnl
 	])
-	ossh_result=`eval "echo "$"$ossh_varname"`
+	ossh_result=`eval echo \$"$ossh_varname"`
 	if test -n "`echo $ossh_varname`"; then
 		AC_MSG_RESULT($ossh_result)
 		if test "x$ossh_result" = "xyes"; then