diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 7f3a694741039eac54ce659b6f2e05696f7ed8be..7ca70daf4dd5373ce43dd28284dd415427890de2 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -42,13 +42,13 @@ AC_SUBST(GCC_CFLAGS)
 AC_CHECK_FUNCS([accept4 mkostemp])
 
 AC_CHECK_DECL(SFD_CLOEXEC,[],
-	      [AC_MSG_ERROR("SFD_CLOEXEC is needed to compile weston")],
+	      [AC_MSG_ERROR("SFD_CLOEXEC is needed to compile wayland")],
 	      [[#include <sys/signalfd.h>]])
 AC_CHECK_DECL(TFD_CLOEXEC,[],
-	      [AC_MSG_ERROR("TFD_CLOEXEC is needed to compile weston")],
+	      [AC_MSG_ERROR("TFD_CLOEXEC is needed to compile wayland")],
 	      [[#include <sys/timerfd.h>]])
 AC_CHECK_DECL(CLOCK_MONOTONIC,[],
-	      [AC_MSG_ERROR("CLOCK_MONOTONIC is needed to compile weston")],
+	      [AC_MSG_ERROR("CLOCK_MONOTONIC is needed to compile wayland")],
 	      [[#include <time.h>]])
 AC_CHECK_HEADERS([execinfo.h])