diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 0b5f8099..def7c4a6 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2006-11-07 Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
+
+	* configure.ac: Don't pretend --enable-doc were the default.
+
 2006-11-02 Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
 
 	* avrdude.conf.in: Fix the width of the efuse memory area for a
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 48164f46..83df5408 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ AC_ARG_ENABLE(
 	[doc],
 	AC_HELP_STRING(
 		[--enable-doc],
-		[Enable building documents(default)]),
+		[Enable building documents]),
 	[case "${enableval}" in
 		yes) enabled_doc=yes ;;
 		no)  enabled_doc=no ;;