diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 8d0b29c64..18bc9b7be 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2006-01-31  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>
+
+	* autogen.sh: Touch README and INSTALL here to pacify 
+	automake.  (#329124, Kjartan Maraas, Tim Janik)
+	
 Tue Jan 31 16:45:03 2006  Tim Janik  <timj@imendio.com>
 
 	* glib/gdataset.c: carry out all dtalist pointer accesses atomically,
diff --git a/ChangeLog.pre-2-10 b/ChangeLog.pre-2-10
index 8d0b29c64..18bc9b7be 100644
--- a/ChangeLog.pre-2-10
+++ b/ChangeLog.pre-2-10
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2006-01-31  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>
+
+	* autogen.sh: Touch README and INSTALL here to pacify 
+	automake.  (#329124, Kjartan Maraas, Tim Janik)
+	
 Tue Jan 31 16:45:03 2006  Tim Janik  <timj@imendio.com>
 
 	* glib/gdataset.c: carry out all dtalist pointer accesses atomically,
diff --git a/ChangeLog.pre-2-12 b/ChangeLog.pre-2-12
index 8d0b29c64..18bc9b7be 100644
--- a/ChangeLog.pre-2-12
+++ b/ChangeLog.pre-2-12
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2006-01-31  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>
+
+	* autogen.sh: Touch README and INSTALL here to pacify 
+	automake.  (#329124, Kjartan Maraas, Tim Janik)
+	
 Tue Jan 31 16:45:03 2006  Tim Janik  <timj@imendio.com>
 
 	* glib/gdataset.c: carry out all dtalist pointer accesses atomically,
diff --git a/autogen.sh b/autogen.sh
index cd2f89ca1..a9baabfd1 100755
--- a/autogen.sh
+++ b/autogen.sh
@@ -74,6 +74,11 @@ fi
 
 rm -rf autom4te.cache
 
+# README and INSTALL are required by automake, but may be deleted by clean
+# up rules. to get automake to work, simply touch these here, they will be
+# regenerated from their corresponding *.in files by ./configure anyway.
+touch README INSTALL
+
 $ACLOCAL $ACLOCAL_FLAGS || exit $?
 
 libtoolize --force || exit $?