diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 272dbf26c..cacf35a42 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -275,7 +275,6 @@ AC_CONFIG_FILES([
   docs/reference/st/Makefile
   docs/reference/st/st-docs.sgml
   js/Makefile
-  js/misc/config.js
   src/Makefile
   browser-plugin/Makefile
   tests/Makefile
diff --git a/js/Makefile.am b/js/Makefile.am
index 14a25b599..f3413ba1b 100644
--- a/js/Makefile.am
+++ b/js/Makefile.am
@@ -1,4 +1,18 @@
 
+EXTRA_DIST = misc/config.js.in
+
+misc/config.js: misc/config.js.in Makefile
+	sed -e "s|[@]PACKAGE_NAME@|$(PACKAGE_NAME)|g" \
+	    -e "s|[@]PACKAGE_VERSION@|$(PACKAGE_VERSION)|g" \
+	    -e "s|[@]GJS_VERSION@|$(GJS_VERSION)|g" \
+	    -e "s|[@]HAVE_BLUETOOTH@|$(HAVE_BLUETOOTH)|g" \
+	    -e "s|[@]SHELL_SYSTEM_CA_FILE@|$(SHELL_SYSTEM_CA_FILE)|g" \
+	    -e "s|[@]GETTEXT_PACKAGE@|$(GETTEXT_PACKAGE)|g" \
+	    -e "s|[@]datadir@|$(datadir)|g" \
+	    -e "s|[@]libexecdir@|$(libexecdir)|g" \
+	    -e "s|[@]sysconfdir@|$(sysconfdir)|g" \
+               $< > $@
+
 jsdir = $(pkgdatadir)/js
 
 nobase_dist_js_DATA = 	\
diff --git a/js/misc/config.js.in b/js/misc/config.js.in
index 6cbf9324d..4a0db16a4 100644
--- a/js/misc/config.js.in
+++ b/js/misc/config.js.in
@@ -14,3 +14,6 @@ const SHELL_SYSTEM_CA_FILE = '@SHELL_SYSTEM_CA_FILE@';
 const GETTEXT_PACKAGE = '@GETTEXT_PACKAGE@';
 /* locale dir */
 const LOCALEDIR = '@datadir@/locale';
+/* other standard directories */
+const LIBEXECDIR = '@libexecdir@';
+const SYSCONFDIR = '@sysconfdir@';