--- configure.orig	Sun Oct 20 13:53:37 2002
+++ configure	Sun Oct 20 13:53:43 2002
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 arch=`uname -s`
 
 while [ -n "$1" ]; do
-	e="`expr "$1" : '--\(.*=.*\)'`"
+	e="`expr -- "$1" : '--\(.*=.*\)'`"
 	if [ -z "$e" ]; then
 		cat<<EOF
 Axel configure
