diff --git a/cmake/CMakeLists.txt b/cmake/CMakeLists.txt
index 1307a0ee493444b16755851f2d664d8d75e48b32..fda46a6e6fcea20af9f1035e3715df5c61807047 100644
--- a/cmake/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/cmake/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -230,6 +230,8 @@ if(PKG_KSPACE)
     endif()
     include_directories(${${FFT}_INCLUDE_DIRS})
     list(APPEND LAMMPS_LINK_LIBS ${${FFT}_LIBRARIES})
+  else()
+    add_definitions(-DFFT_KISSFFT)
   endif()
   set(PACK_OPTIMIZATION "PACK_ARRAY" CACHE STRING "Optimization for FFT")
   set_property(CACHE PACK_OPTIMIZATION PROPERTY STRINGS PACK_ARRAY PACK_POINTER PACK_MEMCPY)
diff --git a/doc/src/Build_settings.txt b/doc/src/Build_settings.txt
index 72771cf624ff98243b2d81bdbed81ccbaba8ee3c..3adabac768bdef96a37f075aada0ce54b4c12127 100644
--- a/doc/src/Build_settings.txt
+++ b/doc/src/Build_settings.txt
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ obsolete by its developers.
  
 [CMake variables]:
 
--D FFT=value              # kiss or fftw3 or fftw2 or mkl, default is fftw3 if found, else kiss
+-D FFT=value              # KISSFFT or FFTW3 or FFTW2 or MKL, default is FFTW3 if found, else KISSFFT
 -D FFT_SINGLE=value       # yes or no (default), no = double precision
 -D FFT_PACK=value         # array (default) or pointer or memcpy :pre
 
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ the FFT library, you can set these variables:
 
 [Makefile.machine settings]:
 
-FFT_INC = -DFFT_FFTW3         # FFTW3, FFTW2, FFTW (same as FFTW3), MKL, or KISS
+FFT_INC = -DFFT_FFTW3         # -DFFT_FFTW3, -DFFT_FFTW2, -DFFT_FFTW (same as -DFFT_FFTW3), -DFFT_MKL, or -DFFT_KISSFFT
                               # default is KISS if not specified
 FFT_INC = -DFFT_SINGLE        # do not specify for double precision
 FFT_INC = -DFFT_PACK_ARRAY    # or -DFFT_PACK_POINTER or -DFFT_PACK_MEMCPY :pre