diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index a453be0e8e..09e9d835da 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -481,7 +481,7 @@ message(
     "\n       debugging:  ${USE_PERFTOOLS_DEBUG}"
     "\njemalloc:          ${ENABLE_JEMALLOC}"
     "\n"
-    "\nFuzz Targets:      ${ZEEK_ENABLE_FUZZING}"
+    "\nFuzz Targets:      ${ZEEK_ENABLE_FUZZERS}"
     "\nFuzz Engine:       ${ZEEK_FUZZING_ENGINE}"
     "\n"
     "\n================================================================\n"
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index a54e1248d2..1fd036f169 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ Usage: $0 [OPTION]... [VAR=VALUE]...
   Optional Features:
     --enable-debug         compile in debugging mode (like --build-type=Debug)
     --enable-coverage      compile with code coverage support (implies debugging mode)
-    --enable-fuzzing       build fuzzing targets
+    --enable-fuzzers       build fuzzer targets
     --enable-mobile-ipv6   analyze mobile IPv6 features defined by RFC 6275
     --enable-perftools     enable use of Google perftools (use tcmalloc)
     --enable-perftools-debug use Google's perftools for debugging
@@ -230,8 +230,8 @@ while [ $# -ne 0 ]; do
             append_cache_entry ENABLE_COVERAGE         BOOL   true
             append_cache_entry ENABLE_DEBUG         BOOL   true
             ;;
-        --enable-fuzzing)
-            append_cache_entry ZEEK_ENABLE_FUZZING BOOL true
+        --enable-fuzzers)
+            append_cache_entry ZEEK_ENABLE_FUZZERS BOOL true
             ;;
         --enable-debug)
             append_cache_entry ENABLE_DEBUG         BOOL   true
diff --git a/src/fuzzers/CMakeLists.txt b/src/fuzzers/CMakeLists.txt
index 1d98ae2057..d057f156f4 100644
--- a/src/fuzzers/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/fuzzers/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ########################################################################
 ## Fuzzing targets
 
-if ( NOT ZEEK_ENABLE_FUZZING )
+if ( NOT ZEEK_ENABLE_FUZZERS )
     return()
 endif ()
 
diff --git a/src/fuzzers/README b/src/fuzzers/README
index e771b52010..5e85435571 100644
--- a/src/fuzzers/README
+++ b/src/fuzzers/README
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ First configure and build for fuzzing (with libFuzzer) and code coverage::
       CFLAGS="-fprofile-instr-generate -fcoverage-mapping" \
       CXXFLAGS="-fprofile-instr-generate -fcoverage-mapping" \
       ./configure --build-type=RelWithDebInfo --build-dir=./build-fuzz-cov \
-      --sanitizers=fuzzer-no-link --enable-fuzzing
+      --sanitizers=fuzzer-no-link --enable-fuzzers
 
     $ cd build-fuzz-cov && make -j $(nproc)
 
@@ -60,9 +60,9 @@ First configure and build::
 
     $ CC=clang CXX=clang++ \
       ./configure --build-type=debug --build-dir=./build-fuzz-check \
-      --sanitizers=address,fuzzer-no-link --enable-fuzzing
+      --sanitizers=address --enable-fuzzers
 
-    $ cd build-fuzz-cov && make -j $(nproc)
+    $ cd build-fuzz-check && make -j $(nproc)
 
 Get a set of inputs to process (we're using the POP3 fuzzer/corpus as example)::