diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 36a58d43ab..47fe09fe8c 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -2615,7 +2615,7 @@ AC_ARG_WITH(rubylibprefix,
 	    [if test "x$withval" = xno; then
 		AC_MSG_ERROR([No ruby, No libprefix])
 	    fi
-	    rubylibprefix"=$withval"])
+	    rubylibprefix="$withval"])
 RUBY_LIB_PREFIX=`eval echo \\"${rubylibprefix}\\"`
 AC_SUBST(rubylibprefix)
 
diff --git a/test/ruby/test_transcode.rb b/test/ruby/test_transcode.rb
index 9a3776273f..801502a1d4 100644
--- a/test/ruby/test_transcode.rb
+++ b/test/ruby/test_transcode.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # encoding: ASCII-8BIT   # make sure this runs in binary mode
 # some of the comments are in UTF-8
-p __ENCODING__
+
 require 'test/unit'
 class TestTranscode < Test::Unit::TestCase
   def test_errors