diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index ff917354a39219728fb7de6fa5ba5e9f3b67a31b..aa1eda655e14f0fed3be9bf76d052ca9f78bbbc4 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -746,7 +746,7 @@ dnl ------------------------------------------------------
 dnl Where we do we find lzma?
 
 AC_ARG_ENABLE(lzma,
-      AS_HELP_STRING(--enable-lzma, [enable support for the Zstandard compression scheme.]),
+      AS_HELP_STRING(--enable-lzma, [enable support for the LZMA compression scheme.]),
       [case "${enableval}" in
         "yes") lzma=true ;;
         "no")  lzma=false ;;