diff --git a/acinclude.m4 b/acinclude.m4
index 0de17390d..3b9a330ca 100644
--- a/acinclude.m4
+++ b/acinclude.m4
@@ -581,6 +581,7 @@ AC_DEFUN([GUILE_CONFIG_SCRIPT],[AC_CONFIG_FILES([$1],[chmod +x $1])])
 
 AC_DEFUN([GUILE_ENABLE_JIT], [
   JIT_AVAILABLE=no
+  AC_CANONICAL_TARGET
   AC_MSG_CHECKING([if JIT code generation supported for target CPU])
   case "$target_cpu" in
     i?86|x86_64|amd64)    JIT_AVAILABLE=yes ;;
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 082a62110..72686e710 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -141,6 +141,9 @@ AC_ARG_ENABLE(debug-malloc,
       [Define this if you want to debug scm_must_malloc/realloc/free calls.])
   fi)
 
+# Check if JIT is available.
+GUILE_ENABLE_JIT
+
 SCM_I_GSC_GUILE_DEBUG=0
 AC_ARG_ENABLE(guile-debug,
   [AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-guile-debug],