diff --git a/lib/configure.py b/lib/configure.py
index d5cb20e058..03172d781b 100644
--- a/lib/configure.py
+++ b/lib/configure.py
@@ -350,7 +350,8 @@ def checkConverterEntries():
 
     #
     checkProg('a Noweb -> LaTeX converter', ['noweave -delay -index $$i > $$o'],
-        rc_entry = [ r'\converter literate   latex      "%%"	""' ])
+        rc_entry = [r'''\converter literate   latex      "%%"	""
+\converter literate   pdflatex      "%%"	""'''])
     #
     checkProg('an HTML -> LaTeX converter', ['html2latex $$i', 'gnuhtml2latex $$i', \
         'htmltolatex -input $$i -output $$o', 'java -jar htmltolatex.jar -input $$i -output $$o'],
diff --git a/status.15x b/status.15x
index e69f8fab09..60a5f4068c 100644
--- a/status.15x
+++ b/status.15x
@@ -59,6 +59,8 @@ What's new
 - The example file for modernCV curriculum vitae has been updated to
   version 0.7 of the moderncv LaTeX package.
 
+- Configure automatically a converter to LaTeX (pdflatex) when noweave is
+  present.
 
 * USER INTERFACE