diff --git a/autogen.changes b/autogen.changes
index 1812d49..5aad74d 100644
--- a/autogen.changes
+++ b/autogen.changes
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Tue Jul 31 08:50:01 UTC 2018 - schwab@suse.de
 - Don't remove -Werror
 - sprintf-overflow.patch: Fix sprintf overflow
 - autogen-guile-2.2.patch: properly add support for guile 2.2
-- autogen-constant-timeout.patch: remove, pass AG_TIMEOUT to configure
+- autogen-constant-timeout.patch: remove, use --enable-timeout
   instead
 
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diff --git a/autogen.spec b/autogen.spec
index 87aabd5..ed443f4 100644
--- a/autogen.spec
+++ b/autogen.spec
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ touch aclocal.m4 configure Makefile.in config-h.in
 %build
 %configure \
 	CFLAGS="%optflags -Wno-error=implicit-fallthrough" \
-	AG_TIMEOUT=20 \
+	--enable-timeout=20 \
 	--disable-static \
 	--with-pic
 make %{?_smp_mflags}