diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index c38c787..6428d60 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -243,6 +243,9 @@ Porting:
 	Renewed port to OpenBSD:
 	Guard OPENSSL_INIT_SETTINGS; and minor changes.
 
+	Thanks to Paul Hunt for sending a fix of the configure
+	--enable-openssl-base processing.
+
 Testing:
 	Removed obselete parts from test.sh
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index c9740eb..41a9844 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -587,7 +587,8 @@ AC_ARG_ENABLE(openssl_base, [  --enable-openssl-base   specify directory with in
 #
 if test -n "$WITH_OPENSSL"; then
  if test -n "$OPENSSL_BASE"; then
-    sc_cv_have_openssl_ssl_h=yes; OPENSSL_BASE="$D"
+    sc_cv_have_openssl_ssl_h=yes;
+    CPPFLAGS="-I$OPENSSL_BASE/include $CPPFLAGS"
  else
   AC_MSG_NOTICE(checking for components of OpenSSL)
   # first, we need to find the include file <openssl/ssl.h>