diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 5f0699426..e25820bcc 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -4552,7 +4552,7 @@ then
   threads="yes"
 fi
 
-if  "$orparallelism" = copy  ||  "$orparallelism" = yes -a "$threads" = no
+if test "$orparallelism" = copy  || test "$orparallelism" = yes -a "$threads" = no
 then
   orparallelism="copy"
   use_malloc="no"
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index ac84e93c5..187246d3d 100755
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ then
   threads="yes"
 fi
 
-if [ "$orparallelism" = copy ] || [ "$orparallelism" = yes -a "$threads" = no ]
+if test "$orparallelism" = copy || test "$orparallelism" = yes -a "$threads" = no
 then
   orparallelism="copy"
   use_malloc="no"