diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 73f0a0b9..56ea06c9 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 2005-04-27  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
 
+	* m4/libtool.m4 (_LT_SYS_DYNAMIC_LINKER) [ linux ]: sed 3.02 does
+	not understand \t in regex.
+	Reported by Tim Van Holder <tim.vanholder@gmail.com>.
+
 	* tests/defs.m4sh (func_configure): Don't run the whole configure
 	script with -x.
 
diff --git a/m4/libtool.m4 b/m4/libtool.m4
index 2c12b025..676c1e58 100644
--- a/m4/libtool.m4
+++ b/m4/libtool.m4
@@ -2037,7 +2037,7 @@ linux*)
 
   # Append ld.so.conf contents to the search path
   if test -f /etc/ld.so.conf; then
-    lt_ld_extra=`awk '/^include / { system(sprintf("cd /etc; cat %s", \[$]2)); skip = 1; } { if (!skip) print \[$]0; skip = 0; }' < /etc/ld.so.conf | $SED -e 's/#.*//;s/[:,\t]/ /g;s/=[^=]*$//;s/=[^= ]* / /g;/^$/d' | tr '\n' ' '`
+    lt_ld_extra=`awk '/^include / { system(sprintf("cd /etc; cat %s", \[$]2)); skip = 1; } { if (!skip) print \[$]0; skip = 0; }' < /etc/ld.so.conf | $SED -e 's/#.*//;s/[:,	]/ /g;s/=[^=]*$//;s/=[^= ]* / /g;/^$/d' | tr '\n' ' '`
     sys_lib_dlsearch_path_spec="/lib /usr/lib $lt_ld_extra"
   fi