diff --git a/jode/ChangeLog b/jode/ChangeLog
index 42fbc9f..7b158d0 100644
--- a/jode/ChangeLog
+++ b/jode/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2001-08-10  Jochen Hoenicke  <jochen@gnu.org>
+
+	* configure.in: Changed bash syntax to more compatible (but
+	slower) syntax.  Fixes bug #448909.	
+
 2001-08-09  Jochen Hoenicke  <jochen@gnu.org>
 
 	* jode/expr/InvokeOperator.java.in (dumpExpression): Fixed the
diff --git a/jode/configure.in b/jode/configure.in
index 749f2af..a6fb551 100644
--- a/jode/configure.in
+++ b/jode/configure.in
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ test/Makefile,
 [chmod 755 javaDependencies.pl bin/jode],
 [for i in \$CONFIG_FILES; do
 changequote(, )dnl
-  if [ \$i != \${i%.java} ]; then
+  if echo \$i | grep '.java\$'; then
 changequote([, ])dnl
     $PERL $srcdir/jcpp $JCPPFLAGS \$i
   fi