diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 5cbf15f9e..7731a48ec 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ before_install:
  - sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:boost-latest/ppa
  - sudo apt-get update -y
  - sudo apt-get install -y gcc-4.8 g++-4.8 make boost1.55 libgdal-dev libgdal1-dev libgdal1h=1.10.0-1~precise1 python-nose libicu-dev libpng-dev libjpeg-dev libtiff-dev libwebp-dev libz-dev libfreetype6-dev libxml2-dev libproj-dev libcairo-dev python-cairo-dev libsqlite3-dev
- - if [[ "${CXX}" == 'g++' ]]; then export CXX="g++-4.8" && export CC="gcc-4.8"; fi;
- - if [[ "${CXX}" == 'clang++' ]]; then echo `which clang`; echo `which clang++`; fi;
+ - if [[ "${CXX}" == 'g++' ]]; then export CXX="g++-4.8"; export CC="gcc-4.8"; fi;
+ - if [[ "${CXX}" == 'clang++' ]]; then export CXX="$(which clang++)"; export CC="$(which clang)"; fi;
  - wget http://www.freedesktop.org/software/harfbuzz/release/harfbuzz-0.9.34.tar.bz2
  - tar xf harfbuzz-0.9.34.tar.bz2
  - cd harfbuzz-0.9.34