diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 902997e36a13ccf3504b75d47524b4743481861b..771840cfb09f92eff4e64bc9d300bef51e8310a1 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ test -n "$CC" || { echo "$0: cannot find a C compiler" ; exit 1 ; }
 #
 if test -z "$wrapper" ; then
 printf "checking whether compiler is gcc... "
-if fnmatch '*(GCC)*' "$("$CC" --version 2>/dev/null)" ; then
+if fnmatch '*\(GCC\)*' "$("$CC" --version 2>/dev/null)" ; then
 echo yes
 printf "checking whether to build musl-gcc wrapper... "
 wrapper=yes