diff --git a/sim/arm/configure.in b/sim/arm/configure.in
index f822c9ef36..033b0bc161 100644
--- a/sim/arm/configure.in
+++ b/sim/arm/configure.in
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-dnl Process this file with `autoconf -l ../common' to produce a configure script.
+dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
+sinclude(../common/aclocal.m4)
 AC_PREREQ(2.5)dnl
 AC_INIT(Makefile.in)