diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 3e7de787ad0b237f1362a0d428355fc56b313c7d..6020233aa7416d48a90d72c74458d06449ab0e18 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -484,6 +484,7 @@ post_process_cmdline() {
     soft_enable ec_adapt
     soft_enable new_tokenset
     soft_enable ext_intra
+    soft_enable mv_compress
 
     # Backwards/jenkins compatibility with --enable-aom-highbitdepth
     enabled aom_highbitdepth && enable_feature highbitdepth