diff --git a/STATUS b/STATUS
index 818a097ef8..94484ad8f5 100644
--- a/STATUS
+++ b/STATUS
@@ -86,14 +86,6 @@ RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS:
 PATCHES ACCEPTED TO BACKPORT FROM TRUNK:
   [ start all new proposals below, under PATCHES PROPOSED. ]
 
-   * Build: Enable the use of autoconf >= 2.62 without causing APR / APR-UTIL
-     options passed to the configure script issue warnings about unknown options.
-     Trunk version of patch:
-        http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=721796&view=rev
-     Backport version for 2.2.x of patch:
-        Trunk version of patch works
-     +1: rpluem, pquerna, tdonovan
-
 PATCHES PROPOSED TO BACKPORT FROM TRUNK:
   [ New proposals should be added at the end of the list ]
 
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 4602c67ac0..0ccf85911e 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -18,6 +18,15 @@ sinclude(build/find_apr.m4)
 sinclude(build/find_apu.m4)
 sinclude(acinclude.m4)
 
+dnl Later versions of autoconf (>= 2.62) by default cause the produced
+dnl configure script to emit at least warnings when it comes across unknown
+dnl command line options. These versions also have the macro
+dnl AC_DISABLE_OPTION_CHECKING defined which turns this off by default.
+dnl We want to have this turned off here since our configure calls can
+dnl contain options for APR / APR-UTIL configure that are unknown to us.
+dnl So avoid confusing the user by turning this off. See also PR 45221.
+ifdef([AC_DISABLE_OPTION_CHECKING], [AC_DISABLE_OPTION_CHECKING])
+
 dnl XXX we can't just use AC_PREFIX_DEFAULT because that isn't subbed in
 dnl by configure until it is too late.  Is that how it should be or not?
 dnl Something seems broken here.