diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 7998f3e3178f359e11fdb0f0ec640e94efe1d039..6eaed9afd4689a9ca1f59c5a66854c84157929b1 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -733,7 +733,7 @@ AC_CHECK_FUNCS(pclose    _pclose )
 dnl ** check for specific library functions that we are interested in
 AC_CHECK_FUNCS(access ftime getclock getpagesize getrusage gettimeofday mktime mprotect readlink setitimer stat symlink sysconf timelocal times vadvise vfork)
 
-dnl ** check whether this machine has gmp2 installed
+dnl ** check whether this machine has gmp3 installed
 AC_CHECK_LIB(gmp,  __gmpz_fdiv_qr, HaveLibGmp=YES; LibGmp=gmp,
   AC_CHECK_LIB(gmp3, __gmpz_fdiv_qr,  HaveLibGmp=YES; LibGmp=gmp3,
     HaveLibGmp=No; LibGmp=not-installed))