--- scourge/configure.in
+++ scourge/configure.in
@@ -540,9 +540,7 @@
 domain="scourge"
 # Symlinks that allow message catalogs to be used from build tree
 if test -w $srcdir; then
-  pushd po
-  make update-po
-  popd
+  make -C po update-po
   for lang in `cat $srcdir/po/LINGUAS`
   do
     mkdir -p $srcdir/../scourge_data/translations/$lang/LC_MESSAGES