diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index adfdd63bc98145a42631eba692bbddce47bf04a8..65a32fc5789e61b8f0e963cbbae33493e6b8b799 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 2010-05-16  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
 
+	* configure.in (ns_appbindir, ns_appresdir): Set using $ns_appdir.
+
 	* configure.in (ns_appdir, ns_appbindir): Add trailing "/" to value.
 	* Makefile.in (install-arch-dep): Update for above change.
 
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 327ae22d2f068807abdda0e17735181ef97cd628..6c6c97e56e11973567bd4eb277bb3f807c87d02d 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -9942,15 +9942,15 @@ TEMACS_LDFLAGS2="\${LDFLAGS}"
 if test "${with_ns}" != no; then
   if test "${opsys}" = darwin; then
      NS_IMPL_COCOA=yes
-     ns_appdir=`pwd`/nextstep/Emacs.app
-     ns_appbindir=`pwd`/nextstep/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS
-     ns_appresdir=`pwd`/nextstep/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources
+     ns_appdir=`pwd`/nextstep/Emacs.app/
+     ns_appbindir=${ns_appdir}Contents/MacOS/
+     ns_appresdir=${ns_appdir}Contents/Resources
      ns_appsrc=${srcdir}/nextstep/Cocoa/Emacs.base
   elif test -f $GNUSTEP_CONFIG_FILE; then
      NS_IMPL_GNUSTEP=yes
-     ns_appdir=`pwd`/nextstep/Emacs.app
-     ns_appbindir=`pwd`/nextstep/Emacs.app
-     ns_appresdir=`pwd`/nextstep/Emacs.app/Resources
+     ns_appdir=`pwd`/nextstep/Emacs.app/
+     ns_appbindir=${ns_appdir}
+     ns_appresdir=${ns_appdir}Resources
      ns_appsrc=${srcdir}/nextstep/GNUstep/Emacs.base
           GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES="$(. $GNUSTEP_CONFIG_FILE; echo $GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES)"
      GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_HEADERS="$(. $GNUSTEP_CONFIG_FILE; echo $GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_HEADERS)"
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index a3ce499e7499838e59b259e3678131a3c6458eb2..2f5abe3a5f9b802e52a7aca2343b27c7feba53cf 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -1466,14 +1466,14 @@ if test "${with_ns}" != no; then
   if test "${opsys}" = darwin; then
      NS_IMPL_COCOA=yes
      ns_appdir=`pwd`/nextstep/Emacs.app/
-     ns_appbindir=`pwd`/nextstep/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/
-     ns_appresdir=`pwd`/nextstep/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources
+     ns_appbindir=${ns_appdir}Contents/MacOS/
+     ns_appresdir=${ns_appdir}Contents/Resources
      ns_appsrc=${srcdir}/nextstep/Cocoa/Emacs.base
   elif test -f $GNUSTEP_CONFIG_FILE; then
      NS_IMPL_GNUSTEP=yes
      ns_appdir=`pwd`/nextstep/Emacs.app/
-     ns_appbindir=`pwd`/nextstep/Emacs.app/
-     ns_appresdir=`pwd`/nextstep/Emacs.app/Resources
+     ns_appbindir=${ns_appdir}
+     ns_appresdir=${ns_appdir}Resources
      ns_appsrc=${srcdir}/nextstep/GNUstep/Emacs.base
      dnl FIXME sourcing this 3 times in subshells seems inefficient.
      GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES="$(. $GNUSTEP_CONFIG_FILE; echo $GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES)"