diff --git a/tests/testcurl.pl b/tests/testcurl.pl
index 27f188f2f..08b80d1de 100755
--- a/tests/testcurl.pl
+++ b/tests/testcurl.pl
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 #                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
 #                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
 #
-# Copyright (C) 1998 - 2010, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+# Copyright (C) 1998 - 2011, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
 #
 # This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
 # you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -108,8 +108,9 @@ while ($ARGV[0]) {
   elsif ($ARGV[0] =~ /--desc=/) {
     $desc = (split(/=/, shift @ARGV))[1];
   }
-  elsif ($ARGV[0] =~ /--configure=/) {
-    $confopts = (split(/=/, shift @ARGV))[1];
+  elsif ($ARGV[0] =~ /--configure=(.*)/) {
+    $confopts = $1;
+    shift @ARGV;
   }
   elsif (($ARGV[0] eq "--nocvsup") || ($ARGV[0] eq "--nogitpull")) {
     $nogitpull=1;