diff --git a/m4/geany-i18n.m4 b/m4/geany-i18n.m4
index c9c5d72b94..2a09ceea9b 100644
--- a/m4/geany-i18n.m4
+++ b/m4/geany-i18n.m4
@@ -13,10 +13,7 @@ AC_DEFUN([GEANY_I18N],
 	if test -n "${LINGUAS}"; then
 		ALL_LINGUAS="${LINGUAS}"
 	else
-		if test -z "$conf_dir"; then
-			conf_dir="."
-		fi
-		ALL_LINGUAS=`cd "$conf_dir/po" 2>/dev/null && ls *.po 2>/dev/null | $AWK 'BEGIN { FS="."; ORS=" " } { print $[]1 }'`
+		ALL_LINGUAS=`cd "$srcdir/po" 2>/dev/null && ls *.po 2>/dev/null | $AWK 'BEGIN { FS="."; ORS=" " } { print $[]1 }'`
 	fi
 
 	AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT