diff --git a/conftools/get-version.sh b/conftools/get-version.sh
index a70e0fb..3493458 100755
--- a/conftools/get-version.sh
+++ b/conftools/get-version.sh
@@ -32,15 +32,4 @@ MAJOR_VERSION="`sed -n -e '/MAJOR_VERSION/s/[^0-9]*//gp' $hdr`"
 MINOR_VERSION="`sed -n -e '/MINOR_VERSION/s/[^0-9]*//gp' $hdr`"
 MICRO_VERSION="`sed -n -e '/MICRO_VERSION/s/[^0-9]*//gp' $hdr`"
 
-# Determine how to tell echo not to print the trailing \n. This is
-# similar to Autoconf's @ECHO_C@ and @ECHO_N@; however, we don't
-#  generate this file via autoconf (in fact, get-version.sh is used
-# to *create* ./configure), so we just do something similar inline.
-case `echo "testing\c"; echo 1,2,3`,`echo -n testing; echo 1,2,3` in
-  *c*,-n*) ECHO_N= ECHO_C='
-' ;;
-  *c*,*  ) ECHO_N=-n ECHO_C= ;;
-  *)      ECHO_N= ECHO_C='\c' ;;
-esac
-
-echo $ECHO_N "$MAJOR_VERSION.$MINOR_VERSION.$MICRO_VERSION$ECHO_C"
+printf "$MAJOR_VERSION.$MINOR_VERSION.$MICRO_VERSION"