diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 1627c196..53d95e74 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ What's New for OpenJPEG
 + : added
 
 August 11, 2011
+* [antonin] minor bug fix in configure.ac (credit to Vincent Torri)
 ! [mickael] backport rev[824-834] and rev[837-859] into the openjpeg-1.5 branch 
 
 August 9, 2011
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index d073f753..3af6337a 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -347,6 +347,7 @@ AC_SUBST(TIFF_LIBS)
 # libcms2
 
 lcms_output="no"
+have_lcms2="no"
 
 AC_ARG_ENABLE([lcms2],
    [AC_HELP_STRING([--disable-lcms2], [disable LCMS-2 support @<:@default=enabled@:>@])],