diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 06f103605..de16609cf 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ Bugfix
    * ecp_gen_keypair() does more tries to prevent failure because of
      statistics
    * Fix buf in RSA PKCS#1 v1.5 "reversed" operations
+   * Threading in x509_crt depended on PTHREAD instead of generic
 
 = PolarSSL 1.3.4 released on 2014-01-27
 Features
diff --git a/library/x509_crt.c b/library/x509_crt.c
index 4c79a7a6c..1d8111926 100644
--- a/library/x509_crt.c
+++ b/library/x509_crt.c
@@ -952,7 +952,7 @@ int x509_crt_parse_file( x509_crt *chain, const char *path )
     return( ret );
 }
 
-#if defined(POLARSSL_THREADING_PTHREAD)
+#if defined(POLARSSL_THREADING_C)
 static threading_mutex_t readdir_mutex = PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER;
 #endif
 
@@ -1020,7 +1020,7 @@ int x509_crt_parse_path( x509_crt *chain, const char *path )
     if( dir == NULL)
         return( POLARSSL_ERR_X509_FILE_IO_ERROR );
 
-#if defined(POLARSSL_THREADING_PTHREAD)
+#if defined(POLARSSL_THREADING_C)
     if( ( ret = polarssl_mutex_lock( &readdir_mutex ) ) != 0 )
         return( ret );
 #endif
@@ -1050,7 +1050,7 @@ int x509_crt_parse_path( x509_crt *chain, const char *path )
     closedir( dir );
 
 cleanup:
-#if defined(POLARSSL_THREADING_PTHREAD)
+#if defined(POLARSSL_THREADING_C)
     if( polarssl_mutex_unlock( &readdir_mutex ) != 0 )
         ret = POLARSSL_ERR_THREADING_MUTEX_ERROR;
 #endif