In configure.in (after $target def' of course) : case "${target}" in *ppc*) libdetect_targetdep_header=ppc.h ;; *i386*) # may be incompete libdetect_targetdep_header=i386 ;; # ... esac about the end of configure.in file (near other AC_SUBST) AC_SUBST(libdetect_targetdep_header)