--- rrdtool-1.0.39/configure.in.orig	Thu Jun 20 08:20:52 2002
+++ rrdtool-1.0.39/configure.in	Tue Jul 23 22:21:31 2002
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@
 fi
 
 dnl add pic flag in any case this makes sure all our code is relocatable
-CFLAGS="$CFLAGS "`grep pic_flag= libtool | sed -e 's/.*pic_flag=//' -e 's/"//g'`
+CFLAGS="$CFLAGS "`grep pic_flag= libtool | sed -e 's/.*pic_flag=//' -e 's/"//g' | tr '\n' ' '`
 
 dnl it seems that hpux chockes on -fPIC for some reason
 ZLIB_CFLAGS=$CFLAGS