diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 4de7aca2..efbe23c3 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Fri Sep 22 18:06:08 CEST 2000 Daniel Veillard <Daniel.Veillard@w3.org>
+
+	* xmlint.c: closing bug #25000
+
 Fri Sep 22 14:17:53 CEST 2000 Daniel Veillard <Daniel.Veillard@w3.org>
 
 	* xmlIO.h tree.h: made xmlNodeDump() and xmlNodeDumpOutput() public
diff --git a/xmllint.c b/xmllint.c
index bfa60109..190632f7 100644
--- a/xmllint.c
+++ b/xmllint.c
@@ -655,11 +655,13 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
 	    xmlGetWarningsDefaultValue = 1;
 	    xmlPedanticParserDefault(1);
         }
+#ifdef LIBXML_DEBUG_ENABLED
 	else if ((!strcmp(argv[i], "-debugent")) ||
 		 (!strcmp(argv[i], "--debugent"))) {
 	    debugent++;
 	    xmlParserDebugEntities = 1;
 	} 
+#endif
 	else if ((!strcmp(argv[i], "-encode")) ||
 	         (!strcmp(argv[i], "--encode"))) {
 	    i++;