diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index fb2c68a2..72c84980 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ Changes in current version:
  o migrate the evhttp header to event2/ but accessors are still missing.
  o deprecate timeout_* event functions by moving them to event_compat.h
  o Move	windows gettimeofday replacement into a new evutil_gettimeofday().
+ o Make configure script work on IRIX.
 
 
 Changes in 1.4.0:
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index cab67a0a..311b89d4 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -130,9 +130,9 @@ dnl - (this is how we check for a windows version of GCC)
 AC_MSG_CHECKING(for WIN32)
 AC_TRY_COMPILE(,
 	[
-	#ifndef WIN32
-	#error
-	#endif
+#ifndef WIN32
+die horribly
+#endif
 	],
 	bwin32=true; AC_MSG_RESULT(yes),
 	bwin32=false; AC_MSG_RESULT(no),