diff --git a/checkin_notes b/checkin_notes
index da19578f27..620b61e52b 100755
--- a/checkin_notes
+++ b/checkin_notes
@@ -9976,3 +9976,11 @@ David  5 Aug 2005
 	win_build/
 		boinc_cli.vcproj
 		boinc_gui.vcproj
+
+Rom    5 Aug 2005
+    - Move the check for the socket type above the check for SSL support.
+      You get compilations errors while attempting to determine socket types
+      on Debian 3.0 with gcc 3.04 due to header changes.
+      
+    /
+        configure.ac
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 8bd9b34413..74f1b3a6e2 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -242,6 +242,12 @@ case ${target} in
 	;;
 esac
 
+dnl m4/boinc_getsockopt.m4
+BOINC_GETSOCKOPT_TYPE
+
+dnl m4/check_ssl.m4
+CHECK_SSL
+
 dnl save the libs
 SAVELIBS_AAF="${LIBS}"
 SAH_CHECK_LIB([cygipc], [shmget],
@@ -256,7 +262,6 @@ SAH_CHECK_LIB([socket], [bind],
     [BOINC_EXTRA_LIBS="${BOINC_EXTRA_LIBS} ${sah_lib_last}"])
 SAH_CHECK_LIB([z], [gzopen], 
     [BOINC_EXTRA_LIBS="${BOINC_EXTRA_LIBS} ${sah_lib_last}"])
-CHECK_SSL
 SAH_CHECK_LIB([crypto], [RSA_new], 
     [BOINC_EXTRA_LIBS="${BOINC_EXTRA_LIBS} -L${SSLDIR}/lib ${sah_lib_last}"])
 SAH_CHECK_LIB([ssl], [main],
@@ -345,10 +350,6 @@ AH_TEMPLATE([HAVE_STD_TRANSFORM],[Define to 1 if transform is in namespace std::
 SAH_FUNCS_IN_NAMESPACE([['min(0,0)'] ['max(0,0)'] ['transform((char *)0,(char *) 0,(char *)0,(int(*)(int))malloc)'] ['locale("")']],std)
 AC_LANG_POP
 
-dnl Cleaning up configure.ac  Moved type checking for getsockopt to
-dnl m4/boinc_getsockopt.m4
-BOINC_GETSOCKOPT_TYPE
-
 dnl Checks for library functions.
 AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL
 AC_FUNC_VPRINTF