diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 80404a798..15030a749 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -87,7 +87,10 @@ case $uname in
         # Starting with 10.6 (Snow Leopard), OS X does not support
         # Carbon calls anymore. We patch this until we are completely Cocoa compliant
         # by limiting ourselves to 32 bit Intel compiles
-        if test `sw_vers -productVersion` = "10.6"; then
+        d_ver_rev=`sw_vers -productVersion | sed -e 's/\.[[0-9]][[0-9]]*//2'`
+        d_ver=`echo $d_ver_rev | sed -e 's/\.[[0-9]][[0-9]]*//'`
+        d_rev=`echo $d_ver_rev | sed -e 's/[[0-9]][[0-9]]*\.//'`
+        if test $d_ver -gt 10 -o $d_ver -eq 10 -a $d_rev -ge 6; then
             CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -arch i386"
             CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -arch i386"
             LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -arch i386"