diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 69f2c2b7..c0137093 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2003-09-02  Marcus Brinkmann  <marcus@g10code.de>
+
+	* configure.ac: Move invocation of AC_CANONICAL_HOST up to
+	suppress warning by autoconf.
+
 2003-08-30  Robert Schiele <rschiele@uni-mannheim.de>
 
 	* gpgme.spec.in: %{_infodir}/dir is not packaged,
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index e8cebc27..1a992367 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(gpgme/gpgme.h)
 AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE($PACKAGE, $VERSION)
 AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
+AC_CANONICAL_HOST
 
 AH_VERBATIM([_GNU_SOURCE],
 [/* Enable GNU extensions on systems that have them.  */
@@ -81,7 +82,6 @@ AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(VERSION, "$VERSION", [Version of this package])
 AC_DISABLE_STATIC
 AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
 
-AC_CANONICAL_HOST
 # For now we hardcode the use of version scripts.  It would be better
 # to write a test for this or even implement this within libtool.
 have_ld_version_script=no