diff --git a/configure b/configure
index e6981b1bc5e5c1afe1b21a2d533e1b7758e7210e..a1c6e9cf6e6cc95d8f55a750e8ee05332a559169 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -20218,7 +20218,7 @@ else
   BUILD_HDF5_FALSE=
 fi
 
-# Some systems (Debian/Ubuntu/...) configure HDF5 with
+# Some older systems (Debian/Ubuntu/...) configure HDF5 with
 # --with-default-api-version=v16 which creates problems for slurm
 # because slurm uses the 1.8 API. By defining this CPP macro we get
 # the 1.8 API.
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 52833278bdd565836c5bb9e58edf5660f1ad4222..ba7f01f2af7b7446531626b3ddb621e0c220a026 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ X_AC_OFED
 
 AX_LIB_HDF5()
 AM_CONDITIONAL(BUILD_HDF5, test "$with_hdf5" = "yes")
-# Some systems (Debian/Ubuntu/...) configure HDF5 with
+# Some older systems (Debian/Ubuntu/...) configure HDF5 with
 # --with-default-api-version=v16 which creates problems for slurm
 # because slurm uses the 1.8 API. By defining this CPP macro we get
 # the 1.8 API.