diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index e13eeffc..a4b52d0d 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ AC_C_CONST
 AC_C_INLINE
 AC_C_RESTRICT
 AC_TYPE_SIZE_T
-AC_C_BIGENDIAN(AC_DEFINE(WORDS_BIGENDIAN),AC_DEFINE(WORDS_LITTLEENDIAN))
+AC_C_BIGENDIAN(AC_DEFINE(WORDS_BIGENDIAN),AC_DEFINE(WORDS_LITTLEENDIAN),,)
 AH_TEMPLATE(WORDS_BIGENDIAN,
 [Define to 1 if your processor stores words with the most significant
 byte first (like Motorola and SPARC, unlike Intel and VAX).])