diff --git a/src/getloadavg.c b/src/getloadavg.c
index b748c3a5ace..ad79231f671 100644
--- a/src/getloadavg.c
+++ b/src/getloadavg.c
@@ -69,10 +69,14 @@
 
 
 #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
+#if defined (emacs) || defined (CONFIG_BROKETS)
 /* We use <config.h> instead of "config.h" so that a compilation
    using -I. -I$srcdir will use ./config.h rather than $srcdir/config.h
-   (which it would do because getloadavg.c was found in $srcdir).  */
+   (which it would do because it found this file in $srcdir).  */
 #include <config.h>
+#else
+#include "config.h"
+#endif
 #endif