diff --git a/scripts/setlocalversion b/scripts/setlocalversion
index 220dae0db3f1..a2998b118ef9 100755
--- a/scripts/setlocalversion
+++ b/scripts/setlocalversion
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ scm_version()
 	# Check for mercurial and a mercurial repo.
 	if test -d .hg && hgid=`hg id 2>/dev/null`; then
 		# Do we have an tagged version?  If so, latesttagdistance == 1
-		if [ "`hg log -r . --template '{latesttagdistance}'`" == "1" ]; then
+		if [ "`hg log -r . --template '{latesttagdistance}'`" = "1" ]; then
 			id=`hg log -r . --template '{latesttag}'`
 			printf '%s%s' -hg "$id"
 		else