diff --git a/getloadavg.c b/getloadavg.c
index 3e4a1d41..b748c3a5 100644
--- a/getloadavg.c
+++ b/getloadavg.c
@@ -69,7 +69,10 @@
 
 
 #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
-#include "config.h"
+/* 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).  */
+#include <config.h>
 #endif