diff --git a/acinclude.m4 b/acinclude.m4
index 8487b891d..ae1e4ea95 100644
--- a/acinclude.m4
+++ b/acinclude.m4
@@ -588,4 +588,94 @@ case "$ac_cv_c_clip_positive$ac_cv_c_clip_negative" in
 )# AC_C_CLIP_MODE
 
 
+dnl Available from the GNU Autoconf Macro Archive at:
+dnl http://www.gnu.org/software/ac-archive/htmldoc/ax_prefix_config_h.html
+dnl
+AC_DEFUN([AX_PREFIX_CONFIG_H],[AC_REQUIRE([AC_CONFIG_HEADER])
+AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS([ifelse($1,,$PACKAGE-config.h,$1)],[dnl
+AS_VAR_PUSHDEF([_OUT],[ac_prefix_conf_OUT])dnl
+AS_VAR_PUSHDEF([_DEF],[ac_prefix_conf_DEF])dnl
+AS_VAR_PUSHDEF([_PKG],[ac_prefix_conf_PKG])dnl
+AS_VAR_PUSHDEF([_LOW],[ac_prefix_conf_LOW])dnl
+AS_VAR_PUSHDEF([_UPP],[ac_prefix_conf_UPP])dnl
+AS_VAR_PUSHDEF([_INP],[ac_prefix_conf_INP])dnl
+m4_pushdef([_script],[conftest.prefix])dnl
+m4_pushdef([_symbol],[m4_cr_Letters[]m4_cr_digits[]_])dnl
+_OUT=`echo ifelse($1, , $PACKAGE-config.h, $1)`
+_DEF=`echo _$_OUT | sed -e "y:m4_cr_letters:m4_cr_LETTERS[]:" -e "s/@<:@^m4_cr_Letters@:>@/_/g"`
+_PKG=`echo ifelse($2, , LMMS, $2)`
+_LOW=`echo _$_PKG | sed -e "y:m4_cr_LETTERS-:m4_cr_letters[]_:"`
+_UPP=`echo $_PKG | sed -e "y:m4_cr_letters-:m4_cr_LETTERS[]_:"  -e "/^@<:@m4_cr_digits@:>@/s/^/_/"`
+_INP=`echo ifelse($3, , _, $3)`
+if test "$ac_prefix_conf_INP" = "_"; then
+   for ac_file in : $CONFIG_HEADERS; do test "_$ac_file" = _: && continue
+     test -f "$ac_prefix_conf_INP" && continue
+     case $ac_file in
+        *.h) test -f $ac_file && _INP=$ac_file ;;
+        *)
+     esac
+   done
+fi
+if test "$_INP" = "_"; then
+   case "$_OUT" in
+      */*) _INP=`basename "$_OUT"`
+      ;;
+      *-*) _INP=`echo "$_OUT" | sed -e "s/@<:@_symbol@:>@*-//"`
+      ;;
+      *) _INP=config.h
+      ;;
+   esac
+fi
+if test -z "$_PKG" ; then
+   AC_MSG_ERROR([no prefix for _PREFIX_PKG_CONFIG_H])
+else
+  if test ! -f "$_INP" ; then if test -f "$srcdir/$_INP" ; then
+     _INP="$srcdir/$_INP"
+  fi fi
+  AC_MSG_NOTICE(creating $_OUT - prefix $_UPP for $_INP defines)
+  if test -f $_INP ; then
+    echo "s/@%:@undef  *\\(@<:@m4_cr_LETTERS[]_@:>@\\)/@%:@undef $_UPP""_\\1/" > _script
+    # no! these are things like socklen_t, const, vfork
+    # echo "s/@%:@undef  *\\(@<:@m4_cr_letters@:>@\\)/@%:@undef $_LOW""_\\1/" >> _script
+    echo "s/@%:@def[]ine  *\\(@<:@m4_cr_LETTERS[]_@:>@@<:@_symbol@:>@*\\)\\(.*\\)/@%:@ifndef $_UPP""_\\1 \\" >> _script
+    echo "@%:@def[]ine $_UPP""_\\1 \\2 \\" >> _script
+    echo "@%:@endif/" >>_script
+    # no! these are things like socklen_t, const, vfork
+    # echo "s/@%:@def[]ine  *\\(@<:@m4_cr_letters@:>@@<:@_symbol@:>@*\\)\\(.*\\)/@%:@ifndef $_LOW""_\\1 \\" >> _script
+    # echo "@%:@define $_LOW""_\\1 \\2 \\" >> _script
+    # echo "@%:@endif/" >> _script
+    # now executing _script on _DEF input to create _OUT output file
+    echo "@%:@ifndef $_DEF"      >$tmp/pconfig.h
+    echo "@%:@def[]ine $_DEF 1" >>$tmp/pconfig.h
+    echo ' ' >>$tmp/pconfig.h
+    echo /'*' $_OUT. Generated automatically at end of configure. '*'/ >>$tmp/pconfig.h
+
+    sed -f _script $_INP >>$tmp/pconfig.h
+    echo ' ' >>$tmp/pconfig.h
+    echo '/* once:' $_DEF '*/' >>$tmp/pconfig.h
+    echo "@%:@endif" >>$tmp/pconfig.h
+    if cmp -s $_OUT $tmp/pconfig.h 2>/dev/null; then
+      AC_MSG_NOTICE([$_OUT is unchanged])
+    else
+      ac_dir=`AS_DIRNAME(["$_OUT"])`
+      AS_MKDIR_P(["$ac_dir"])
+      rm -f "$_OUT"
+      mv $tmp/pconfig.h "$_OUT"
+    fi
+#    cp _script _configs.sed
+  else
+    AC_MSG_ERROR([input file $_INP does not exist - skip generating $_OUT])
+  fi
+  rm -f conftest.*
+fi
+m4_popdef([_symbol])dnl
+m4_popdef([_script])dnl
+AS_VAR_POPDEF([_INP])dnl
+AS_VAR_POPDEF([_UPP])dnl
+AS_VAR_POPDEF([_LOW])dnl
+AS_VAR_POPDEF([_PKG])dnl
+AS_VAR_POPDEF([_DEF])dnl
+AS_VAR_POPDEF([_OUT])dnl
+],[PACKAGE="$PACKAGE"])])
+
 
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index c49a00127..15d7efed8 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 AC_PREREQ(2.50)
 AC_INIT(lmms, 0.4.0-svn20080607, lmms-devel/at/lists/dot/sf/dot/net)
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(lmms, 0.4.0-svn20080607)
+AX_PREFIX_CONFIG_H([include/lmmsconfig.h])
 
 AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)