diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 6674791..dc8e026 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -491,7 +491,7 @@
     enabled new_tokenset && enable_feature ec_multisymbol
     enabled ec_multisymbol && ! enabled ans && soft_enable daala_ec
     enabled ec_multisymbol && ! enabled daala_ec && soft_enable ans
-    enabled daala_ec && enable_feature ec_multisymbol
+    enabled daala_ec && ! disabled ec_multisymbol && enable_feature ec_multisymbol
     if enabled rawbits && ! enabled daala_ec; then
       log_echo "rawbits requires daala_ec, so disabling rawbits"
       disable_feature rawbits