diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 5ae1dead3..ec2a78340 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 2001-05-19  Pavel Roskin  <proski@gnu.org>
 
+	* doc-gnome/C/mkhtml: New file. Create HTML files from gmc.sgml.
+	* doc-gnome/C/Makefile.am: Don't handle *.css - there are none
+	with DocBook 4.1. Never use `cp' without `-f'. Use mkhtml.
+
 	* doc-gnome/C/gmc.sgml: Use DTD DocBook V4.1. Fix duplicate
 	index entry "Moving files".
 
diff --git a/doc-gnome/C/Makefile.am b/doc-gnome/C/Makefile.am
index c04e94d5a..9e0e8ca01 100644
--- a/doc-gnome/C/Makefile.am
+++ b/doc-gnome/C/Makefile.am
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ gmc_helpdir = $(datadir)/gnome/help/gmc/C
 
 gmc_help_DATA = index.html topic.dat
 
+noinst_SCRIPTS = mkhtml
+
 SGML_FILES = gmc.sgml
 
 EXTRA_DIST = topic.dat $(SGML_FILES)
@@ -13,23 +15,18 @@ CLEANFILES = gmc.dvi gmc.ps gmc.pdf gmc.rtf
 DISTCLEANFILES = gmc.sgm
 
 $(srcdir)/index.html: @MAINT@ $(SGML_FILES)
-@MAINT@	fullsrcdir=`cd $(srcdir) >/dev/null 2>&1 && pwd` && \
-@MAINT@	db2html $$fullsrcdir/gmc.sgml && \
-@MAINT@	  rm -f $(srcdir)/*.html $(srcdir)/*.css && \
-@MAINT@	  mv gmc/*.html gmc/*.css $(srcdir)
-@MAINT@	rm -rf gmc
+@MAINT@	cd $(srcdir) && $(SHELL) $(srcdir)/mkhtml
 
 dist-hook: $(srcdir)/index.html
-	cp $(srcdir)/*.html $(srcdir)/*.css $(distdir)
+	cp $(srcdir)/*.html $(distdir)
 
 install-data-local: $(srcdir)/index.html
-	for file in $(srcdir)/*.html $(srcdir)/*.css; do \
+	for file in $(srcdir)/*.html; do \
 	  $(INSTALL_DATA) $$file $(DESTDIR)$(gmc_helpdir) || exit 1; \
 	done
 
 uninstall-local: $(srcdir)/index.html
 	rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(gmc_helpdir)/*.html
-	rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(gmc_helpdir)/*.css
 
 dvi-local: gmc.dvi
 
@@ -41,7 +38,7 @@ dvi-local: gmc.dvi
 # maybe future versions of docbook will be more consistent.
 gmc.dvi: $(srcdir)/gmc.sgml
 	mkdir tmpdvi
-	cp $(srcdir)/gmc.sgml tmpdvi
+	cp -f $(srcdir)/gmc.sgml tmpdvi
 	db2dvi tmpdvi/gmc.sgml
 	if test -f tmpdvi/gmc.dvi; then \
 	  mv -f tmpdvi/gmc.dvi gmc.dvi; \
@@ -50,7 +47,7 @@ gmc.dvi: $(srcdir)/gmc.sgml
 
 gmc.rtf: $(srcdir)/gmc.sgml
 	mkdir tmprtf
-	cp $(srcdir)/gmc.sgml tmprtf
+	cp -f $(srcdir)/gmc.sgml tmprtf
 	db2rtf tmprtf/gmc.sgml
 	if test -f tmprtf/gmc.rtf; then \
 	  mv -f tmprtf/gmc.rtf gmc.rtf; \
diff --git a/doc-gnome/C/mkhtml b/doc-gnome/C/mkhtml
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..c81e2758f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc-gnome/C/mkhtml
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+#! /bin/sh
+
+# Forget portability - this is a script for maintainers only.
+# In fact, it's only known to run on RedHat Linux 7.1.
+# HTML files are included with the distribution, so it's not a big deal.
+
+# Exit on errors.
+set -e
+
+# Some cleanup
+rm -rf gmc gmc.junk
+
+# Complicated bootstrap process - create empty genindex.sgml first,
+# then generate it and then html files again.
+echo >genindex.sgml
+
+# Java wrapper doesn't seem to have any sane way for passing extra options
+# to the jade command. It doesn't honor the environment variables either.
+# Fortunately, there is an undocumented "-l" option (perhaps intended for
+# something else).
+jw -l "-V html-index=1" -f docbook -b html -o gmc gmc.sgml
+
+# collateindex.pl may not have /usr/bin/perl on the first line.
+perl /usr/bin/collateindex.pl gmc/HTML.index >genindex.sgml
+
+# Now process all with the right genindex.sgml
+rm -rf gmc
+jw -f docbook -b html -o gmc gmc.sgml
+
+# Move the output to the current directory
+mv gmc/* .
+rm -rf gmc