diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index effb877f3..7fdaef117 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@
                                   Changelog
 
 
+Daniel Stenberg (4 May 2008)
+- Yuriy Sosov pointed out a configure fix for detecting c-ares when that is
+  built debug-enabled.
+
 Daniel Stenberg (3 May 2008)
 - Ben Van Hof filed bug report #1945240: "libcurl sometimes sends body twice
   when using CURL_AUTH_ANY" (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1945240).
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index dbc291724..b14f0b723 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ This release includes the following bugfixes:
  o CURLOPT_OPENSOCKETFUNCTION can now be used to create a unix domain socket
  o CURLOPT_TCP_NODELAY crash due to getprotobyname() use
  o libcurl sometimes sent body twice when using CURLAUTH_ANY
+ o configure detecting debug-enabled c-ares
 
 This release includes the following known bugs:
 
@@ -49,6 +50,7 @@ advice from friends like these:
 
  Michal Marek, Daniel Fandrich, Scott Barrett, Alexey Simak, Daniel Black,
  Rafa Muyo, Andre Guibert de Bruet, Brock Noland, Sandor Feldi, Stefan Krause,
- David Shaw, Norbert Frese, Bart Whiteley, Jean-Francois Bertrand, Ben Van Hof
+ David Shaw, Norbert Frese, Bart Whiteley, Jean-Francois Bertrand, Ben Van Hof,
+ Yuriy Sosov
 
         Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 503272883..910a8d160 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -2270,6 +2270,8 @@ AC_HELP_STRING([--disable-ares],[Disable c-ares for name lookups]),
 void curl_dofree() { }
 void curl_sclose() { }
 void curl_domalloc() { }
+void curl_docalloc() { }
+void curl_socket() { }
 
 int main(void)
 {