diff -r 6a0ee764a60a -r 6d8384a86692 configure
--- a/configure	Fri Sep 14 19:30:56 2007 +0000
+++ b/configure	Mon Sep 17 21:51:24 2007 +0000
@@ -123,8 +123,8 @@
 
 # Check bash is present, and at least version 3.0
 [ -x /bin/bash ] || do_error "bash 3.0 or above was not found in /bin/bash"
-bash_version=$(/bin/bash --version |sed -r -e '2,$d' -e 's/.* version ([[:digit:]]+).*/\1/;')
-bash_major=${bash_version%%.*}
+bash_version=$(/bin/bash -c 'echo ${BASH_VERSION}')
+bash_major=$(/bin/bash -c 'echo ${BASH_VERSINFO[0]}')
 [ ${bash_major} -ge 3 ] || do_error "bash 3.0 or above is needed (found ${bash_version})"
 
 sed -r -e "s,@@BINDIR@@,${BINDIR},g;"   \