diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 6b93d69a33..0dfa2ac3ae 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -50,8 +50,7 @@
 #############################################################################
 
 # Prevent locale nonsense from breaking basic text processing utils
-LC_ALL=C
-export LC_ALL
+export LC_ALL=C
 
 # Store the configure line that was used
 _configuration="$*"