diff --git a/configure b/configure
index f3f3b52a..6d01127d 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -23672,7 +23672,7 @@ fi
 # Check whether --enable-old-jpeg or --disable-old-jpeg was given.
 if test "${enable_old_jpeg+set}" = set; then
   enableval="$enable_old_jpeg"
-  HAVE_OJPEG=yes
+  HAVE_OJPEG=$enableval
 else
   HAVE_OJPEG=no
 fi;
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 345c89b9..730d7f67 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ dnl ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 dnl Check for Old JPEG.
 dnl ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-AC_ARG_ENABLE(old-jpeg, AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-old-jpeg], [enable support for Old JPEG compresson (read contrib/ojpeg/README first! Compilation fails with unpatched IJG JPEG library)]), [HAVE_OJPEG=yes], [HAVE_OJPEG=no])
+AC_ARG_ENABLE(old-jpeg, AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-old-jpeg], [enable support for Old JPEG compresson (read contrib/ojpeg/README first! Compilation fails with unpatched IJG JPEG library)]), [HAVE_OJPEG=$enableval], [HAVE_OJPEG=no])
 
 if test "$HAVE_JPEG" = "yes" -a "$HAVE_OJPEG" = "yes" ; then
   AC_DEFINE(OJPEG_SUPPORT,1,[Support Old JPEG compresson (read contrib/ojpeg/README first! Compilation fails with unpatched IJG JPEG library)])