diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 45bccbfbbc..42cdade249 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Wed Jan 23 14:36:00 EST 2008 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
+
+	* configure.in: Fix enablement of SASL
+
 Wed Jan 23 14:47:00 BST 2008 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
 
 	Portability improvements for Mac OS X.
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 449bb91403..3c30a8ae7b 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -398,12 +398,12 @@ if test "x$with_sasl" != "xno"; then
           [You must install the Cyrus SASL development package in order to compile libvirt])
     fi])
   if test "x$with_sasl" != "xno" ; then
-    AC_CHECK_LIB(sasl2, sasl_client_init,[],[
+    AC_CHECK_LIB(sasl2, sasl_client_init,[with_sasl=yes],[
       if test "x$with_sasl" = "xcheck" ; then
           with_sasl=no
       else
-         AC_MSG_ERROR(
-           [You must install the Cyrus SASL library in order to compile and run libvirt])
+          AC_MSG_ERROR(
+            [You must install the Cyrus SASL library in order to compile and run libvirt])
       fi])
   fi
   CFLAGS="$old_cflags"