diff --git a/deps-packaging/openssl/cfbuild-openssl.spec b/deps-packaging/openssl/cfbuild-openssl.spec
index 371316438..c0b8abbc7 100644
--- a/deps-packaging/openssl/cfbuild-openssl.spec
+++ b/deps-packaging/openssl/cfbuild-openssl.spec
@@ -62,17 +62,18 @@ if [ x$SYS = "xAIX" ]; then
   # See https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-gnu.html for
   # details.
   LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -Wl,-bexpfull"
-  # for some reason, Configure on AIX doesn't auto-detect target
-  target=aix-gcc
+  # ./config doesn't properly detect aix-gcc on our systems, so be explicit and use ./Configure
+  CONFIG_COMMAND=$PERL ./Configure aix-gcc
+else
+  CONFIG_COMMAND=./config
 fi
 
-$PERL ./Configure $target shared  no-idea no-rc5 no-ssl3 no-dtls no-psk no-srp no-engine \
+"$CONFIG_COMMAND" shared  no-idea no-rc5 no-ssl3 no-dtls no-psk no-srp no-engine \
          $DEBUG_CONFIG_FLAGS \
          --prefix=%{prefix} \
          $HACK_FLAGS   \
          $DEBUG_CFLAGS \
-         $LDFLAGS \
-         --libdir=lib
+         $LDFLAGS
 
 # Remove -O3 and -fomit-frame-pointer from debug builds
 if [ $BUILD_TYPE = "DEBUG" ]