diff --git a/config.guess b/config.guess
index 9b3e52aab4..85fb13ad18 100755
--- a/config.guess
+++ b/config.guess
@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ EOF
 	echo powerpcle-unknown-solaris2`echo ${UNAME_RELEASE}|sed -e 's/[^.]*//'`
 	exit 0 ;;
     *:GNU:*:*)
-	echo `echo ${UNAME_MACHINE}|sed -e 's,/.*$,,'`-unknown-gnu-gnu`echo ${UNAME_RELEASE}|sed -e 's,/.*$,,'`
+	echo `echo ${UNAME_MACHINE}|sed -e 's,/.*$,,'`-unknown-gnu`echo ${UNAME_RELEASE}|sed -e 's,/.*$,,'`
 	exit 0 ;;
     *:Linux:*:*)
 	# The BFD linker knows what the default object file format is, so