diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 910146491..629981e7b 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -291,12 +291,19 @@ fi
 AC_SUBST(DL_LIBS)
 
 dnl Checks for stricmp/strcasecmp
-AC_CHECK_FUNC(strcasecmp,
-	,
+#AC_CHECK_FUNC(strcasecmp,
+#	,
+#	AC_CHECK_FUNC(stricmp,
+#		AC_DEFINE(strcasecmp,	stricmp)
+#	)
+#)
+AC_CHECK_FUNC(strcasecmp, strcasecmp=yes, strcasecmp=no)
+if test $strcasecmp = no; then
 	AC_CHECK_FUNC(stricmp,
-		AC_DEFINE(strcasecmp,	stricmp)
+		AC_DEFINE(strcasecmp, stricmp),
+		AC_MSG_ERROR([Neither stricmp nor strcasecmp found])
 	)
-)
+fi
 
 dnl Check for vsnprintf
 if test "x$ac_cv_func_vsnprintf" = "xno" -a \