diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d10e02822..048dbff05 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+1998-12-17  Christopher Blizzard  <blizzard@appliedtheory.com>
+
+	* autogen.sh (srcdir): Honor $ACLOCAL_FLAGS when running aclocal.
+
 Sun Dec 13 15:26:19 1998  Norbert Warmuth  <nwarmuth@privat.circular.de>
 
 	* Makefile.in (target installdirs): create $(DESTDIR)$(idldir) 
diff --git a/autogen.sh b/autogen.sh
index b4fe5cbc0..71c24461b 100755
--- a/autogen.sh
+++ b/autogen.sh
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ test -z "$srcdir" && srcdir=.
 cd $srcdir
 if test -d macros; then
 	test -f mc-aclocal.m4 && test -f gettext.m4 && cat mc-aclocal.m4 gettext.m4 > acinclude.m4
-	aclocal -I macros
+	aclocal -I macros $ACLOCAL_FLAGS
 else
 	echo macros directory not found, skipping generation of aclocal.m4
 fi