diff --git a/libguile/cpp_cnvt.awk b/libguile/cpp_cnvt.awk
index 128136fa2..1e6c09436 100644
--- a/libguile/cpp_cnvt.awk
+++ b/libguile/cpp_cnvt.awk
@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@
 # in Guile.
 {
 print "#ifdef " $0;
-print "scm_c_define (\""$0"\", SCM_MAKINUM ("$0"));";
+print "scm_c_define (\""$0"\", scm_from_int ("$0"));";
 print "#endif"
 }