diff --git a/easybuild/easyblocks/generic/configuremake.py b/easybuild/easyblocks/generic/configuremake.py
index 3b88de8f6cb..1f206fbae74 100644
--- a/easybuild/easyblocks/generic/configuremake.py
+++ b/easybuild/easyblocks/generic/configuremake.py
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
 from easybuild.tools.filetools import CHECKSUM_TYPE_SHA256, adjust_permissions, compute_checksum, download_file
 from easybuild.tools.filetools import read_file, remove_file
 from easybuild.tools.py2vs3 import string_type
-from easybuild.tools.run import run_cmd
+from easybuild.tools.run import check_log_for_errors, run_cmd
 
 # string that indicates that a configure script was generated by Autoconf
 # note: bytes string since this constant is used to check the contents of 'configure' which is read as bytes
@@ -324,6 +324,7 @@ def configure_step(self, cmd_prefix=''):
         )
 
         (out, _) = run_cmd(cmd, log_all=True, simple=False)
+        check_log_for_errors(out, ['configure: WARNING: unrecognized options:'])
 
         return out