The macro is only needed because of DPKG_ARCHITECTURE which it already requires.
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([lib/dpkg/dpkg.h])
AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([config])
-AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM
AC_GNU_SOURCE
DPKG_ARCHITECTURE