diff --git a/src/auto/configure b/src/auto/configure
index 20668eb..22f724e 100755
--- a/src/auto/configure
+++ b/src/auto/configure
@@ -2781,7 +2781,7 @@
   test "$GCC" = yes && CFLAGS="-O2 -fno-strength-reduce -Wall"
 fi
 if test "$GCC" = yes; then
-  gccversion=`"$CC" --version | sed -e '2,$d;s/^[^0-9]*\(darwin.[^0-9]*\)*\([0-9]\.[0-9.]*\).*$/\2/g'`
+  gccversion=`"$CC" --version | sed -e '2,$d' -e 's/darwin.//' -e 's/^[^0-9]*\([0-9]\.[0-9.]*\).*$/\1/g'`
     if test "$gccversion" = "3.0.1" -o "$gccversion" = "3.0.2" -o "$gccversion" = "4.0.1"; then
     echo 'GCC [34].0.[12] has a bug in the optimizer, disabling "-O#"'
     CFLAGS=`echo "$CFLAGS" | sed 's/-O[23456789]/-O/'`
@@ -15249,7 +15249,7 @@
 echo $ECHO_N "checking for GCC 3 or later... $ECHO_C" >&6
 DEPEND_CFLAGS_FILTER=
 if test "$GCC" = yes; then
-  gccmajor=`"$CC" --version | sed -e '2,$d;s/^[^0-9]*\(darwin.[^0-9]*\)*\([1-9]\)\.[0-9].*$/\2/g'`
+  gccmajor=`echo "$gccversion" | sed -e 's/^\([1-9]\)\..*$/\1/g'`
   if test "$gccmajor" -gt "2"; then
     DEPEND_CFLAGS_FILTER="| sed 's+-I */+-isystem /+g'"
   fi