diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 3c3bd9324..ba1f54f91 100755
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ phpMyAdmin - Changelog
 $Id$
 $Source$
 
+2002-03-14 Marc Delisle  <lem9@users.sourceforge.net>
+	* libraries/common.lib.php3, PMA_MYSQL_INT_VERSION is not yet defined
+	  before the connection
+
 2002-03-13 Marc Delisle  <lem9@users.sourceforge.net>
 	* libraries/common.lib.php3: bug 528961 safe_show_database
 
diff --git a/libraries/common.lib.php3 b/libraries/common.lib.php3
index 4b028a3d8..01fa4536e 100644
--- a/libraries/common.lib.php3
+++ b/libraries/common.lib.php3
@@ -540,7 +540,8 @@ if (!defined('PMA_COMMON_LIB_INCLUDED')){
         else {
             // ... first checks whether the "safe_show_database" 
             //     is on or not (if MYSQL supports this)
-            if (PMA_MYSQL_INT_VERSION >= 32330) {
+            if (defined('PMA_MYSQL_INT_VERSION') &&
+                PMA_MYSQL_INT_VERSION >= 32330) {
                 $local_query      = 'SHOW VARIABLES LIKE \'safe_show_database\'';
                 $rs               = mysql_query($local_query, $dbh); // Debug: or PMA_mysqlDie('', $local_query, FALSE);
                 $is_safe_show_dbs = mysql_result($rs, 0, 'Value');