diff --git a/configure b/configure
index f046fcbbf8f..82a081e4718 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ f_libclangstatic=NO
 # first setup the list with availabe languages, so we cannot forget any
 # list will be in case as specified (f_langs) and in uppercase (f_ulangs) as used in the internal perl script
 #
-f_langs=`ls -1 src/translator_??.h | sed -e 's%src/translator_%%g' | sed -e 's/\.h//' | tr '\012' ',' | sed -e 's/,$//'`
+f_langs=`ls -1 src/translator_??.h | sed -e 's%src/translator_%%g' | sed -e 's/\.h//' | tr '\012' ','`
 
 while test -n "$1";  do
   case $1 in
@@ -708,13 +708,9 @@ fi
 
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-if ! test -d "generated_src/doxygen"; then
-  mkdir -p generated_src/doxygen
-fi
+mkdir -p generated_src/doxygen
 if test "$f_wizard" = YES; then
-  if ! test -d "generated_src/doxywizard"; then
-    mkdir -p generated_src/doxywizard
-  fi
+  mkdir -p generated_src/doxywizard
 fi
 
 #
diff --git a/src/lang_cfg.py b/src/lang_cfg.py
index 9ba1319c809..329610f1b69 100644
--- a/src/lang_cfg.py
+++ b/src/lang_cfg.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import sys
 
-if (len(sys.argv) > 0):
+if (len(sys.argv) > 1):
     if (sys.argv[1] == "ENONLY"):
         print "#define ENGLISH_ONLY"
     else: