diff --git a/reference/sphinx/configure.xml b/reference/sphinx/configure.xml
index 06b330f868..244a7524ef 100644
--- a/reference/sphinx/configure.xml
+++ b/reference/sphinx/configure.xml
@@ -8,11 +8,11 @@
   <link xlink:href="&url.pecl.package;sphinx"/>.
  </para>
  <para>
-  If <filename>./configure</filename> is having trouble finding the
-  libsphinxclient files (for example, it was installed into a custom 
-  prefix directory), use <userinput>./configure
-   --with-sphinx=$PREFIX</userinput>, where $PREFIX is installation prefix of
-  libsphinxclient.
+  If the <filename>./configure</filename> script generated by
+  <literal>phpize</literal> is having trouble finding the libsphinxclient
+  files (for example, it was installed into a custom prefix directory), use
+  <userinput>./configure --with-sphinx=$PREFIX</userinput>, where $PREFIX is
+  installation prefix of libsphinxclient.
  </para>
 </section>