diff --git a/lib/ChangeLog b/lib/ChangeLog
index 20d2d8ec14..bc12600c17 100644
--- a/lib/ChangeLog
+++ b/lib/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2004-01-22  Jean-Marc Lasgouttes  <lasgouttes@lyx.org>
+
+	* configure.m4: fix call to makepsres; cosmetic changes to font
+	checking messages
+
 2004-01-18  Michael Schmitt  <michael.schmitt@teststep.org>
 
 	* examples/g-brief2.lyx: Fix layouts
diff --git a/lib/configure.m4 b/lib/configure.m4
index 5628f246cd..55b71c19fa 100644
--- a/lib/configure.m4
+++ b/lib/configure.m4
@@ -580,7 +580,7 @@ rm -f xfonts/fonts.dir xfonts/fonts.scale xfonts/tmpfonts
 num=0
 touch xfonts/tmpfonts
 for font in $fontlist ; do
-  MSG_CHECKING([for $font])
+  MSG_CHECKING(for $font,+)
   result=no
   for ext in pfb pfa ttf ; do
     if filepath=`kpsewhich $font.$ext` ; then
@@ -600,7 +600,7 @@ if test ! $num = 0 ; then
   cat xfonts/tmpfonts >>xfonts/fonts.scale
   cp xfonts/fonts.scale xfonts/fonts.dir
   # create a resource list file for Display Postscript
-  (cd xfonts ; rm -f PSres.upr ; makepsres -q) || true
+  (cd xfonts ; rm -f PSres.upr ; makepsres) 2>/dev/null || true
 fi
 rm -f xfonts/tmpfonts