diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 7b92fcca1..afdeee2ad 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 2001-05-29  Pavel Roskin  <proski@gnu.org>
 
+	* Make.common.in: Add -I$(top_srcdir) to XCPPFLAGS.
+
 	* Make.common.in: Remove hpath, it's unused.
 
 	* acconfig.h: Move constant parts ...
diff --git a/Make.common.in b/Make.common.in
index 736424ef5..35a59c15a 100644
--- a/Make.common.in
+++ b/Make.common.in
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ AWK = @AWK@
 # No way, to make make happy (except GNU), we cannot use := to append
 # something to these, so that's why there is a leading _
 XCFLAGS = @CFLAGS@
-XCPPFLAGS = @CPPFLAGS@ @MCCPPFLAGS@ -I.. \
+XCPPFLAGS = @CPPFLAGS@ @MCCPPFLAGS@ -I.. -I$(top_srcdir) \
 	-DBINDIR=\""$(bindir)/"\" \
 	-DLIBDIR=\""$(mclibdir)/"\" \
 	-DICONDIR=\""$(icondir)/"\" \