diff --git a/SWIG/Makefile.in b/SWIG/Makefile.in
index 23f4f7d71..44dc16dc9 100644
--- a/SWIG/Makefile.in
+++ b/SWIG/Makefile.in
@@ -403,4 +403,13 @@ srcrpm:
 	rm -fr $(srpm)
 	rpmbuild -ts $(srpm).tar.gz
 
+# Update the autoconf files for detecting host/targets. Automake will do this in
+# version 1.10 for our case of not having a top level Makefile.am. Until then we
+# can fetch them manually and will have to commit them to CVS.
+configfiles:
+	wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/config.guess -O Tools/config/config.guess
+	chmod a+x Tools/config/config.guess
+	wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/config.sub -O Tools/config/config.sub
+	chmod a+x Tools/config/config.sub
+
 # Makefile ends here