diff --git a/Makefile.in b/Makefile.in
index fe01d9ac743..a6b856622db 100644
--- a/Makefile.in
+++ b/Makefile.in
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ CFG_STDLIB :=$(call CFG_LIB_NAME,std)
 ifdef CFG_OCAMLC_OPT
   $(info cfg: have ocaml native compiler)
   OPT=.opt
-else
+else ifdef CFG_OCAMLC
   $(info cfg: have only ocaml bytecode compiler)
 endif
 
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 392434631a2..84833f12bcb 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -186,13 +186,13 @@ putvar CFG_CONFIGURE_ARGS
 step_msg "looking for build programs"
 probe_need CFG_GCC          gcc
 probe_need CFG_GIT          git
-probe_need CFG_OCAMLC       ocamlc
 probe_need CFG_PERL         perl
 probe_need CFG_PYTHON       python
 probe_need CFG_CURL         curl
 
 probe CFG_LLVM_CONFIG      llvm-config
 probe CFG_VALGRIND         valgrind
+probe CFG_OCAMLC           ocamlc
 probe CFG_OCAMLOPT         ocamlopt
 probe CFG_OCAMLC_OPT       ocamlc.opt
 probe CFG_OCAMLOPT_OPT     ocamlopt.opt