diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 32d2c5c5e3..d8e33482b5 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2008-08-28  Sven Neumann  <sven@gimp.org>
+
+	* configure.in: use echo, not $echo in the Win32-specific code
+	that sets up the Python build variables.
+
 2008-08-28  Sven Neumann  <sven@gimp.org>
 
 	* app/paint-funcs/scale-region.c (scale_determine_progress):
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 8a2289af8a..21a47835ae 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -1650,7 +1650,7 @@ if test "x$enable_python" != xno; then
   PYLINK_LIBS=
   if test "x$platform_win32" = "xyes"; then
     PYBIN_PATH="$py_exec_prefix\pythonw.exe"
-    PYTHON_INCLUDES=`$echo "$PYTHON_INCLUDES" | sed -e 's/\\\\/\\//g'`
+    PYTHON_INCLUDES=`echo "$PYTHON_INCLUDES" | sed -e 's/\\\\/\\//g'`
     py_exec_prefix=`echo "$py_exec_prefix" | sed -e 's/\\\\/\\//g'`
     pylibversion=`echo $PYTHON_VERSION | sed -e 's/\\.//'`
     PYLINK_LIBS="-L${py_exec_prefix}/libs -lpython${pylibversion}"