diff --git a/configure b/configure
index cf42dd7fde5..60c005db61a 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -6145,8 +6145,6 @@ for engine in $_sorted_engines; do
 		# main engine
 		cat >> engines/engines.mk << EOF
 
-MODULES += engines/$engine/detection
-
 ifdef ENABLE_$j
 DEFINES += -DENABLE_$j=\$(ENABLE_$j)
 MODULES += engines/$engine
@@ -6168,31 +6166,22 @@ EOF
 	fi
 done
 
-if [ "${_detection_features_static}" == "false" ]; then
-	cat >> engines/engines.mk << EOF
-
-# This build was configured to use detection as a dynamic plugin.
-MODULES += detection
-EOF
-fi
-
 # Name which is suffixed to each detection plugin
 detectId="_DETECTION"
 
-echo "Creating detection/detection_table.h"
-cat > detection/detection_table.h << EOF
+echo "Creating engines/detection_table.h"
+cat > engines/detection_table.h << EOF
 /* This file is automatically generated by configure */
 /* DO NOT EDIT MANUALLY */
-// This file is being included by "detection/detection.cpp" and "base/plugins.cpp"
+// This file is being included by "base/plugins.cpp"
 EOF
 
 for engine in $_sorted_engines; do
 	if test "`get_engine_sub $engine`" = "no" ; then
 		j=`echo $engine | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]'`
 		detectEngine="${j}${detectId}"
-		cat >> detection/detection_table.h << EOF
+		cat >> engines/detection_table.h << EOF
 LINK_PLUGIN($detectEngine)
-
 EOF
 	fi
 done