diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog b/libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog
index 1942ff35aa52..819e77c97159 100644
--- a/libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog
+++ b/libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2001-03-12  Felix Lee  <flee@redhat.com>
+
+	* mkcheck.in: workaround for bash 2.01 IFS bug.
+
 2001-03-12  Benjamin Kosnik  <bkoz@redhat.com>
 
 	Fixups for -fno-for-scope
diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/mkcheck.in b/libstdc++-v3/mkcheck.in
index 913c44555589..9788d181ec51 100755
--- a/libstdc++-v3/mkcheck.in
+++ b/libstdc++-v3/mkcheck.in
@@ -51,7 +51,8 @@ esac
 
 # Compute the flags necessary to run the testsuite.
 saved_ifs=$IFS
-IFS=':'
+# bash 2.01 does the wrong thing with $* if IFS doesn't include space
+IFS=': '
 set `../tests_flags ${query} $*` || exit 1
 BUILD_DIR=$1; SRC_DIR=$2; PREFIX_DIR=$3; CXX=$4; CXXFLAGS=$5; INCLUDES=$6; LIBS=$7;
 IFS=$saved_ifs