diff --git a/src/regex.c b/src/regex.c
index 15ca91bc54a..8b7aecf0d80 100644
--- a/src/regex.c
+++ b/src/regex.c
@@ -26,6 +26,17 @@
 
 #define _GNU_SOURCE
 
+#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
+#if defined (CONFIG_BROKETS)
+/* 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 it found this file in $srcdir).  */
+#include <config.h>
+#else
+#include "config.h"
+#endif
+#endif
+
 /* We need this for `regex.h', and perhaps for the Emacs include files.  */
 #include <sys/types.h>