diff --git a/configure.inc b/configure.inc
index fd0c9ba..98066d5 100755
--- a/configure.inc
+++ b/configure.inc
@@ -1733,52 +1733,6 @@ AC_FAIL() {
     $__fail 1
 }
 
-#
-# __ac_config_sed; a C program to do escaping for AC_SUB
-__ac_config_sed() {
-
-
-    test -x config.sed && return
-
-    echo "generating config.sed"
-
-    AC_PROG_CC
-    
-cat > ngc$$.c << \EOF
-#include <stdio.h>
-
-int
-main(argc, argv)
-int argc;
-char **argv;
-{
-    char *p;
-    
-    if (argc != 3)
-	return 1;
-
-    printf("s;@%s@;", argv[1]);
-
-    for (p=argv[2]; *p; ++p) {
-	if ( *p == ';' )
-	    putchar('\\');
-	putchar(*p);
-    }
-
-    puts(";g");
-    return 0;
-}
-EOF
-
-    if $AC_CC -o config.sed ngc$$.c; then
-	rm -f ngc$$.c
-	__config_files="$__config_files config.sed"
-    else
-	rm -f ngc$$.c
-	AC_FAIL "Cannot generate config.sed helper program"
-    fi
-}
-
 #
 # AC_SUB writes a substitution into config.sub
 AC_SUB() {
@@ -1788,8 +1742,7 @@ AC_SUB() {
 
     echo "target=$_target, rest=$*"
     
-    __ac_config_sed
-    ./config.sed "$_target" "$*" >> "$__cwd"/config.sub
+    config.sed "$_target" "$*" >> "$__cwd"/config.sub
 }
 #
 # AC_TEXT writes arbitrary text into config.h