diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 0c20a923..fa313232 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2009-05-02  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+	Fix quoting of eval'ed variable.
+	* libltdl/m4/libtool.m4 (_LT_CMD_GLOBAL_SYMBOLS): Double-quote
+	$lt_cv_sys_global_symbol_pipe for eval, like we do in ltmain,
+	in order to preserve TABs and multiple adjacent whitespace.
+	Report by Bruno Haible.
+
 2009-04-22  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
 
 	Cope better with missing `makeinfo' in `bootstrap'.
diff --git a/libltdl/m4/libtool.m4 b/libltdl/m4/libtool.m4
index 63e831e1..8e4bca99 100644
--- a/libltdl/m4/libtool.m4
+++ b/libltdl/m4/libtool.m4
@@ -3380,7 +3380,7 @@ _LT_EOF
   if AC_TRY_EVAL(ac_compile); then
     # Now try to grab the symbols.
     nlist=conftest.nm
-    if AC_TRY_EVAL(NM conftest.$ac_objext \| $lt_cv_sys_global_symbol_pipe \> $nlist) && test -s "$nlist"; then
+    if AC_TRY_EVAL(NM conftest.$ac_objext \| "$lt_cv_sys_global_symbol_pipe" \> $nlist) && test -s "$nlist"; then
       # Try sorting and uniquifying the output.
       if sort "$nlist" | uniq > "$nlist"T; then
 	mv -f "$nlist"T "$nlist"