diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 9879418..d568f0f 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ Corrections:
 	Red Hat bug 1981308
 	Thanks to Vlad Slepukhin for reporting this issue and providing a patch
 
+	Corrected a typo in configure.ac that broke option --enable-openssl-base
+	Thanks to john1doe for reporting this issue.
+
 Testing:
 	Prevent the TIMESTAMP tests from sporadically failing due do seconds
 	overflow
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 018bd37..53e1fe8 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-"1.7.4.1"
+"1.7.4.1+"
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 53cebbd..b6b3cab 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -519,7 +519,7 @@ if test -n "$WITH_OPENSSL"; then
       [sc_cv_have_openssl_ssl_h=yes; OPENSSL_BASE=""; ],
       [sc_cv_have_openssl_ssl_h=no
        if [ "$OPENSSL_BASE" ]; then
-	  s="$OPENSSL_BASE"
+	  Ds="$OPENSSL_BASE"
        else
           Ds="/sw /usr/local /opt/freeware /usr/sfw /usr/local/ssl"
        fi