diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 4f8bc5e5b..ec4b229f5 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -1094,7 +1094,7 @@ config_h="config-host.h"
 test -f $config_h && mv $config_h ${config_h}~
 
 echo "# Automatically generated by configure - do not modify" > $config_mak
-echo -n "# Configured with:" >> $config_mak
+printf "# Configured with:" >> $config_mak
 printf " '%s'" "$0" "$@" >> $config_mak
 echo >> $config_mak
 echo "/* Automatically generated by configure - do not modify */" > $config_h