diff --git a/src/configure b/src/configure
index f9f65fa..d8595a5 100755
--- a/src/configure
+++ b/src/configure
@@ -2,5 +2,9 @@
 # run the automatically generated configure script
 CONFIG_STATUS=auto/config.status \
 	auto/configure "$@" --srcdir="${srcdir:-.}" --cache-file=auto/config.cache
+result=$?
+
 # Stupid autoconf 2.5x causes this file to be left behind.
 if test -f configure.lineno; then rm -f configure.lineno; fi
+
+exit $result