--- configure.old	Fri May 31 20:25:09 2002
+++ configure	Fri May 31 20:25:26 2002
@@ -1418,6 +1418,7 @@
 
   
 
+  KERNEL_VERSION=`echo $KERNEL_VERSION | awk '{ print $1 }'`
   min_kernel_version=2.4.0
 
   echo $ac_n "checking for Linux kernel version >= $min_kernel_version""... $ac_c" 1>&6