2 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/README b/README
index 04779b7a2..c1ae76b97 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ gnurl / libgnurl is a fork of curl/libcurl with the following major changes:
   * dropped auto-generation of ngroff man page in favor of mdoc page,
     with the endgoal to drop the build-time dependency on groff and
     to provide a more appropriate documentation for gnurl.
+  * enforced setting of built-in manual which is assembled at compile
+    time through plain text dump of ngroff page.
 
 
 Usage notes
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index fad0a927b..0dfe18fc8 100755
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -705,12 +705,12 @@ AC_HELP_STRING([--disable-manual],[Disable built-in manual]),
   no)
        AC_MSG_RESULT(no)
        ;;
-  *)   AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)
-       USE_MANUAL="1"
+  *)   AC_MSG_RESULT(no)
+       USE_MANUAL="0"
        ;;
   esac ],
-       AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)
-       USE_MANUAL="1"
+       AC_MSG_RESULT(no)
+       USE_MANUAL="0"
 )
 dnl The actual use of the USE_MANUAL variable is done much later in this
 dnl script to allow other actions to disable it as well.