diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 715a01c8a9..8e44cb5642 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -898,7 +898,7 @@ Optional Packages:
   --with-libedit-preferred  prefer BSD Libedit over GNU Readline
   --with-ossp-uuid        build with OSSP UUID library for UUID generation
   --with-libxml           build with XML support
-  --with-libxslt          build /contrib/xml2 with XSLT support
+  --with-libxslt          use XSLT support when building /contrib/xml2
   --with-system-tzdata=DIR  use system time zone data in DIR
   --without-zlib          do not use Zlib
   --with-gnu-ld           assume the C compiler uses GNU ld [default=no]
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 0da6ede61c..0539a0ed0c 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
-dnl $PostgreSQL: pgsql/configure.in,v 1.533 2007/11/04 18:10:42 momjian Exp $
+dnl $PostgreSQL: pgsql/configure.in,v 1.534 2007/11/04 18:53:39 momjian Exp $
 dnl
 dnl Developers, please strive to achieve this order:
 dnl
@@ -600,8 +600,8 @@ AC_SUBST(with_libxml)
 #
 # XSLT
 #
-PGAC_ARG_BOOL(with, libxslt, no, [  --with-libxslt          build /contrib/xml2 with XSLT support],
-              [AC_DEFINE([USE_LIBXSLT], 1, [Define to 1 to build /contrib/xml2 with XSLT support. (--with-libxslt)])])
+PGAC_ARG_BOOL(with, libxslt, no, [  --with-libxslt          use XSLT support when building /contrib/xml2],
+              [AC_DEFINE([USE_LIBXSLT], 1, [Define to 1 to use XSLT support when building /contrib/xml2. (--with-libxslt)])])
 
 
 AC_SUBST(with_libxslt)
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
index 5d55481b94..d185cbb2a5 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml,v 1.295 2007/11/04 18:10:42 momjian Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml,v 1.296 2007/11/04 18:53:39 momjian Exp $ -->
 
 <chapter id="installation">
  <title><![%standalone-include[<productname>PostgreSQL</>]]>
@@ -973,7 +973,7 @@ su - postgres
        <term><option>--with-libxslt</option></term>
        <listitem>
         <para>
-         Build <filename>/contrib/xml2</> with libxslt.
+         Use libxslt when building <filename>/contrib/xml2</>.
          <filename>/contrib/xml2</> relies on this library to perform
          Stylesheet transformations of XML.
         </para>