diff --git a/src/compressor/zlib/ZlibCompressor.cc b/src/compressor/zlib/ZlibCompressor.cc
index e3064d2a21..c86b19da6c 100644
--- a/src/compressor/zlib/ZlibCompressor.cc
+++ b/src/compressor/zlib/ZlibCompressor.cc
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ int ZlibCompressor::zlib_compress(const bufferlist &in, bufferlist &out)
   return 0;
 }
 
-#if __x86_64__ && defined(HAVE_BETTER_YASM_ELF64)
+#if __x86_64__ && defined(HAVE_BETTER_YASM_ELF64) && defined(HAVE_INTEL_SSE4_1)
 int ZlibCompressor::isal_compress(const bufferlist &in, bufferlist &out)
 {
   int ret;
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ int ZlibCompressor::compress(const bufferlist &in, bufferlist &out)
   if (qat_enabled)
     return qat_accel.compress(in, out);
 #endif
-#if __x86_64__ && defined(HAVE_BETTER_YASM_ELF64)
+#if __x86_64__ && defined(HAVE_BETTER_YASM_ELF64) && defined(HAVE_INTEL_SSE4_1)
   if (isal_enabled)
     return isal_compress(in, out);
   else