diff --git a/distrib/configure.ac.in b/distrib/configure.ac.in
index 942be376c8f6911fcb50b1fb1e8a932c3ccd7a99..7edecf9161f98b3ea029d6f2472e3e45889bc0e7 100644
--- a/distrib/configure.ac.in
+++ b/distrib/configure.ac.in
@@ -247,8 +247,8 @@ AC_SUBST(TargetHasGnuNonexecStack)
 
 dnl ** See whether cc supports --target=<triple> and set
 dnl CONF_CC_OPTS_STAGE[12] accordingly.
-FP_CC_SUPPORTS_TARGET([$CC], [CONF_CC_OPTS_STAGE1], [CONF_CXX_OPTS_STAGE1], [CONF_GCC_LINK_OPTS_STAGE1])
-FP_CC_SUPPORTS_TARGET([$CC], [CONF_CC_OPTS_STAGE2], [CONF_CXX_OPTS_STAGE2], [CONF_GCC_LINK_OPTS_STAGE2])
+FP_CC_SUPPORTS_TARGET([$CC], [CONF_CC_OPTS_STAGE1], [CONF_CXX_OPTS_STAGE1], [CONF_GCC_LINKER_OPTS_STAGE1])
+FP_CC_SUPPORTS_TARGET([$CC], [CONF_CC_OPTS_STAGE2], [CONF_CXX_OPTS_STAGE2], [CONF_GCC_LINKER_OPTS_STAGE2])
 
 dnl Pass -Qunused-arguments or otherwise GHC will have very noisy invocations of Clang
 FP_CC_IGNORE_UNUSED_ARGS([$CC], [CONF_CC_OPTS_STAGE1])