diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 9a050757744b6472bb00ddd2167c947c22eb5d24..c67ba79c74af303cc337950e7118cb8869a80a3d 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -294,7 +294,6 @@ LIBVIRT_CHECK_LIBSSH
 LIBVIRT_CHECK_LIBXML
 LIBVIRT_CHECK_MACVTAP
 LIBVIRT_CHECK_NETCF
-LIBVIRT_CHECK_NSS
 LIBVIRT_CHECK_NUMACTL
 LIBVIRT_CHECK_NWFILTER
 LIBVIRT_CHECK_OPENWSMAN
@@ -479,6 +478,7 @@ LIBVIRT_CHECK_LOGIN_SHELL
 LIBVIRT_CHECK_HOST_VALIDATE
 LIBVIRT_CHECK_TLS_PRIORITY
 LIBVIRT_CHECK_SYSCTL_CONFIG
+LIBVIRT_CHECK_NSS
 
 
 
diff --git a/m4/virt-nss.m4 b/m4/virt-nss.m4
index f50b1b91c4cb87637eed94d6ed6f0adaf985687f..8840e7b243da7211e5e2053553ff077173076989 100644
--- a/m4/virt-nss.m4
+++ b/m4/virt-nss.m4
@@ -27,16 +27,34 @@ AC_DEFUN([LIBVIRT_CHECK_NSS],[
   bsd_nss=no
   fail=0
   if test "x$with_nss_plugin" != "xno" ; then
-    AC_CHECK_HEADERS([nss.h], [
-        with_nss_plugin=yes
-      ],[
-        if test "x$with_nss_plugin" = "xyes" ; then
-          fail = 1
-        fi
-      ])
+    if test "x$with_yajl" != "xyes" ; then
+      if test "x$with_nss_plugin" = "xyes" ; then
+        AC_MSG_ERROR([Can't build nss plugin without yajl])
+      else
+        with_nss_plugin=no
+      fi
+    fi
+
+    if test "x$with_network" != "xyes" ; then
+      if test "x$with_nss_plugin" = "xyes" ; then
+        AC_MSG_ERROR([Can't build nss plugin without yajl])
+      else
+        with_nss_plugin=no
+      fi
+    fi
+
+    if test "x$with_nss_plugin" != "xno" ; then
+      AC_CHECK_HEADERS([nss.h], [
+          with_nss_plugin=yes
+        ],[
+          if test "x$with_nss_plugin" = "xyes" ; then
+            fail = 1
+          fi
+        ])
 
-    if test $fail = 1 ; then
-      AC_MSG_ERROR([Can't build nss plugin without nss.h])
+      if test $fail = 1 ; then
+        AC_MSG_ERROR([Can't build nss plugin without nss.h])
+      fi
     fi
 
     if test "x$with_nss_plugin" = "xyes" ; then