diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index b68884ccd6..237a2f9482 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -90,10 +90,10 @@ if 'CFLAGS' is specified it must enable optimization.  For example:
      library will still be usable, but functionality may be lost--for
      example, you can't build a shared libc with old binutils.
 
-'--with-default-link=FLAG'
-     With '--with-default-link=yes', the build system does not use a
-     custom linker script for linking shared objects.  The default for
-     FLAG is the opposite, 'no', because the custom linker script is
+'--with-default-link'
+     With '--with-default-link', the build system does not use a custom
+     linker script for linking shared objects.  The default is
+     '--without-default-link', because the custom linker script is
      needed for full RELRO protection.
 
 '--with-nonshared-cflags=CFLAGS'
diff --git a/manual/install.texi b/manual/install.texi
index fcfb6901e4..5feccfb6ed 100644
--- a/manual/install.texi
+++ b/manual/install.texi
@@ -117,11 +117,11 @@ problem and suppress these constructs, so that the library will still be
 usable, but functionality may be lost---for example, you can't build a
 shared libc with old binutils.
 
-@item --with-default-link=@var{FLAG}
-With @code{--with-default-link=yes}, the build system does not use a
-custom linker script for linking shared objects.  The default for
-@var{FLAG} is the opposite, @samp{no}, because the custom linker script
-is needed for full RELRO protection.
+@item --with-default-link
+With @code{--with-default-link}, the build system does not use a custom
+linker script for linking shared objects.  The default is
+@code{--without-default-link}, because the custom linker script is
+needed for full RELRO protection.
 
 @item --with-nonshared-cflags=@var{cflags}
 Use additional compiler flags @var{cflags} to build the parts of the