diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 73fce2db4e7..a367582f2ab 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -5236,9 +5236,10 @@ emacs_config_features=
 for opt in XAW3D XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG CAIRO IMAGEMAGICK SOUND GPM DBUS \
   GCONF GSETTINGS NOTIFY ACL LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT \
   LIBOTF XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS X_TOOLKIT X11 NS MODULES \
-  XWIDGETS LIBSYSTEMD; do
+  XWIDGETS LIBSYSTEMD CANNOT_DUMP; do
 
     case $opt in
+      CANNOT_DUMP) eval val=\${$opt} ;;
       NOTIFY|ACL) eval val=\${${opt}_SUMMARY} ;;
       TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS|X_TOOLKIT) eval val=\${USE_$opt} ;;
       *) eval val=\${HAVE_$opt} ;;