diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 49309e6f417630de01578a5ebcd94f54e097974c..b2ad14bbf80fbcaf8b22561ad761608f801a3e6c 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ fi
 dnl figure out the libcurl version
 CURLVERSION=`$SED -ne 's/^#define LIBCURL_VERSION "\(.*\)"/\1/p' ${srcdir}/include/curl/curlver.h`
 XC_CHECK_PROG_CC
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
+XC_AUTOMAKE
 AC_MSG_CHECKING([curl version])
 AC_MSG_RESULT($CURLVERSION)