diff --git a/checkin_notes b/checkin_notes
index a0252ec054..d950fb1197 100755
--- a/checkin_notes
+++ b/checkin_notes
@@ -20495,8 +20495,9 @@ Bruce	2 Dec 2004
     -   Modified admin ops pages so that workunit displays transition time,
         and target_nresults.  Results pages displays deadline not received time
         for results that are still in progress or were never received.
-
+    -   Fixed glut detection bug in configure script
     checkin-notes
+    configure.ac
     zip/
         boinc_zip.h
     html/
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 2180c43c0a..5fdee4f6f5 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -159,9 +159,11 @@ of the BOINC application API library.
 
 ================================================================================
        ])
-else
+else 
    AC_CHECK_HEADERS([gl.h glu.h glut.h glaux.h GL/gl.h GL/glu.h GL/glut.h GL/glaux.h OpenGL/gl.h OpenGL/glu.h OpenGL/glut.h OpenGL/glaux.h GLUT/glut.h MesaGL/gl.h MesaGL/glu.h MesaGL/glut.h MesaGL/glaux.h])
+   have_glut=yes
 fi
+
 AM_CONDITIONAL(BUILD_GRAPHICS_API, [ test "$have_glut" = yes ])
 dnl --------------------------------------------------------------------------------