diff --git a/collects/tests/racket/benchmarks/common/auto.rkt b/collects/tests/racket/benchmarks/common/auto.rkt
index 13cbbb7430..6385a67aed 100755
--- a/collects/tests/racket/benchmarks/common/auto.rkt
+++ b/collects/tests/racket/benchmarks/common/auto.rkt
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ exec racket -qu "$0" ${1+"$@"}
     (delete-file (append-extension-suffix (symbol->string bm))))
 
   (define (run-exe bm)
-    (system (symbol->string bm)))
+    (system (format "./~a" (symbol->string bm))))
 
   (define (run-exe/time bm)
     (system (format "time ~a" bm)))
diff --git a/collects/tests/racket/benchmarks/common/mk-bigloo.rktl b/collects/tests/racket/benchmarks/common/mk-bigloo.rktl
index 700d34ae95..614ebdecfb 100644
--- a/collects/tests/racket/benchmarks/common/mk-bigloo.rktl
+++ b/collects/tests/racket/benchmarks/common/mk-bigloo.rktl
@@ -11,12 +11,7 @@
     (newline))
   #:exists 'truncate/replace)
 
-(when (system (format "bigloo -w -o ~a -copt -m32 -call/cc -copt -O3 -copt -fomit-frame-pointer -O6 ~a~a.scm"
-                      name 
-                      (if (memq (string->symbol name)
-                                '(ctak))
-                          "-call/cc "
-                          "")
-                      name))
+(when (system (format "bigloo -static-bigloo -w -o ~a -copt -m32 -call/cc -copt -O3 -copt -fomit-frame-pointer -O6 ~a.scm"
+                      name name))
   (delete-file (format "~a.scm" name))
   (delete-file (format "~a.o" name)))