diff --git a/DOCS/crosscompile-mingw.txt b/DOCS/crosscompile-mingw.txt
index a3b9e3aab6..0a739a945e 100644
--- a/DOCS/crosscompile-mingw.txt
+++ b/DOCS/crosscompile-mingw.txt
@@ -55,5 +55,6 @@ make
 # This should work. For some reason, the resulting .exe will depend on the DLL
 # /opt/mingw/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/bin/libwinpthread-1.dll because pthreads-w32
 # folks don't like static linking. How to enable static linking is left as
-# exercise for the reader. Passsing --disable-pthreads to mpv's configure will
-# get rid of the dependency, but may disable some features.
+# exercise to the reader. Passsing --disable-pthreads to mpv's configure will
+# get rid of the dependency, but may disable some features (such as the stream
+# cache).
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index d18d1cc547..b9846e570a 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -1451,12 +1451,14 @@ else
 fi
 echores "$_pthreads"
 
+echocheck "stream cache"
 _stream_cache="$_pthreads"
 if test "$_stream_cache" = yes ; then
   def_stream_cache='#define CONFIG_STREAM_CACHE'
 else
   def_stream_cache='#undef CONFIG_STREAM_CACHE'
 fi
+echores "$_stream_cache"
 
 echocheck "rpath"
 if test "$_rpath" = yes ; then