diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 87d1502..15efa43 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
-AC_INIT([collectd],[m4_esyscmd(./version-gen.sh)])
+AC_INIT([collectd],[@@VERSION@@])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(src/)
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS(src/config.h)
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([libltdl/config])