diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 4d9c5d4ae..8176b8a29 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@
 
                                   Changelog
 
+Daniel Fandrich (4 Mar 2009)
+- Fixed a problem with m4 quoting in the OpenSSL configure check reported
+  by Daniel Johnson.
+
 Daniel Stenberg (3 Mar 2009)
 - David James brought a patch that make libcurl close (all) dead connections
   whenever you attempt to open a new connection.
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index f81799121..58624a2dd 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1171,7 +1171,7 @@ if test X"$OPT_SSL" != Xno; then
     PKGTEST="no"
     PREFIX_OPENSSL=$OPT_SSL
     LIB_OPENSSL="$PREFIX_OPENSSL/lib$libsuff"
-    if [ "$PREFIX_OPENSSL" != "/usr" ] ; then
+    if test "$PREFIX_OPENSSL" != "/usr" ; then
       LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L$LIB_OPENSSL"
       CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I$PREFIX_OPENSSL/include"
     fi