diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 1a6f00f9c..6c38a4035 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ ver 0.18.7 (not yet released)
   - soundcloud: fix build failure with libyajl 2.0.1
 * decoder
   - faad: fix memory leak
+  - mpcdec: reject libmpcdec SV7 in configure script
 * daemon: don't initialize supplementary groups when already running
   as the configured user
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index b2e952808..2cd0c7720 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -960,7 +960,7 @@ AM_CONDITIONAL(ENABLE_SNDFILE, test x$enable_sndfile = xyes)
 
 dnl --------------------------------- musepack --------------------------------
 
-MPD_AUTO_LIB(mpc, MPCDEC, mpcdec, main, [-lmpcdec], [],
+MPD_AUTO_LIB(mpc, MPCDEC, mpcdec, mpc_demux_init, [-lmpcdec], [],
 	[mpcdec], [libmpcdec not found])
 if test x$enable_mpc = xyes; then
 	AC_DEFINE(HAVE_MPCDEC, 1, [Define to use libmpcdec for MPC decoding])