diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 1e588bc5764d92ba279b3d5d050f15696424d793..f6cd075115c1459a2dde3604252d1c240c7509c1 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -4072,7 +4072,7 @@ if test "x$enable_parallel" = "xyes"; then
 fi
 
 if test "x$UNAME" = "xDarwin"; then
-  echo "detected Darwin... no need to check byte ordering"
+      echo "detected Darwin... no need to check byte ordering"
 else
   echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking whether byte ordering is bigendian" >&5
 echo $ECHO_N "checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... $ECHO_C" >&6
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 21bb7618878dd19545e7365c983f73db474f2323..7c476615520da853bc7d27d74a971ac38cbbfa9a 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-dnl $Id: configure.in,v 1.63 2005-06-06 22:20:56 geuzaine Exp $
+dnl $Id: configure.in,v 1.64 2005-06-06 22:26:12 geuzaine Exp $
 dnl
 dnl Copyright (C) 1997-2005 C. Geuzaine, J.-F. Remacle
 dnl
@@ -344,6 +344,8 @@ fi
 
 dnl Check if the machine is big or little endian
 if test "x$UNAME" = "xDarwin"; then
+  dnl Apple guarantees that its compilers will define the macro: forcing
+  dnl the definition here would prevent building universal binaries
   echo "detected Darwin... no need to check byte ordering"
 else
   AC_C_BIGENDIAN(FLAGS="-D__BIG_ENDIAN__ ${FLAGS}")