diff -urN patchelf-0.8.orig/configure.ac patchelf-0.8/configure.ac
--- patchelf-0.8.orig/configure.ac	2015-07-20 15:56:01.841095956 +0300
+++ patchelf-0.8/configure.ac	2015-07-20 16:07:20.457053497 +0300
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-AC_INIT([patchelf], m4_esyscmd([echo -n $(cat ./version)]))
+AC_INIT([patchelf], m4_esyscmd_s([cat ./version]))
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/patchelf.cc])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([-Wall  dist-bzip2 foreign color-tests parallel-tests])