--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 AC_INIT(README)
-AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIRS($srcdir/build-scripts)
+AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-scripts])
 
 dnl Set various version strings - taken gratefully from the GTk sources