diff --git a/urjtag/ChangeLog b/urjtag/ChangeLog
index d490092b..b466f312 100644
--- a/urjtag/ChangeLog
+++ b/urjtag/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2010-02-05  Mike Frysinger  <vapier@gentoo.org>
+
+  * acinclude.m4 (AS_VAR_APPEND): Fix a few typos.
+
 2010-02-04  Jie Zhang  <jie.zhang@analog.com>
 
   * src/tap/cable/ft2232.c (ft2232_gnice_init_common): Replace
diff --git a/urjtag/acinclude.m4 b/urjtag/acinclude.m4
index 3e1cbc83..797cf8ce 100644
--- a/urjtag/acinclude.m4
+++ b/urjtag/acinclude.m4
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ dnl
 dnl this was added in autoconf-2.64+
 dnl
 m4_ifndef([AS_VAR_APPEND],[dnl
-AC_DEFUN([AS_VAR_APPEND], [${$1}="${$1}${$2}"])
+AC_DEFUN([AS_VAR_APPEND], [$1=${$1}$2])
 ])dnl