diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 06e54ae5..2bcfa58a 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -20,3 +20,4 @@ Changes in current version:
  o Add an evutil module (with header evutil.h) to implement our standard cross-platform hacks, on the theory that somebody else would like to use them too.
  o Fix signals implementation on windows.
  o Fix http module on windows to close sockets properly.
+ o Make autogen.sh script run correctly on systems where /bin/sh isn't bash. (Patch from Trond Norbye, rewritten by Hagne Mahre and then Hannah Schroeter.)
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/autogen.sh b/autogen.sh
index 5c04a217..513e4be1 100755
--- a/autogen.sh
+++ b/autogen.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 LIBTOOLIZE=libtoolize
-if [ "$(uname)" == "Darwin" ] ; then
+SYSNAME=`uname`
+if [ "x$SYSNAME" == "xDarwin" ] ; then
   LIBTOOLIZE=glibtoolize
 fi
 aclocal && \