--- a/build-aux/config.guess	Thu Dec 18 12:51:03 2008 +0100
+++ b/build-aux/config.guess	Thu Dec 18 09:44:20 2008 -0800
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #   2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
 #   Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
-timestamp='2008-12-11'
+timestamp='2008-12-18'
 
 # This file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
 # under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -335,11 +335,9 @@
 	SUN_ARCH="i386"
 	# If there is a compiler, see if it is configured for 64-bit objects.
 	# Note that the Sun cc does not turn __LP64__ into 1 like gcc does.
-	# This test works for both compilers.  Note that the full path to
-	# /usr/bin/echo is necessary to work around the shell builtins for
-	# echo that do not handle newlines.
+	# This test works for both compilers.
 	if [ "$CC_FOR_BUILD" != 'no_compiler_found' ]; then
-	    if /usr/bin/echo '\n#ifdef __amd64\nIS_64BIT_ARCH\n#endif' | \
+	    if (echo '#ifdef __amd64'; echo IS_64BIT_ARCH; echo '#endif') | \
 		(CCOPTS= $CC_FOR_BUILD -E - 2>/dev/null) | \
 		grep IS_64BIT_ARCH >/dev/null
 	    then