diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 73043f43b..0e1a2a880 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2000-10-23  Pavel Roskin  <proski@gnu.org>
+
+	* doc-gnome/C/Makefile.am: Workaround for buggy db2html
+	that cannot deal with "./gmc.sgml".
+
 2000-10-09  Pavel Roskin  <proski@gnu.org>
 
 	* Makefile.am: GNOME_M4_FILES renamed to ACLOCAL_M4_SOURCES so
diff --git a/doc-gnome/C/Makefile.am b/doc-gnome/C/Makefile.am
index 7504f3af7..9145ad738 100644
--- a/doc-gnome/C/Makefile.am
+++ b/doc-gnome/C/Makefile.am
@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ CLEANFILES = gmc.dvi gmc.ps gmc.pdf gmc.rtf
 DISTCLEANFILES = gmc.sgm
 
 $(srcdir)/index.html: @MAINT@ $(SGML_FILES)
-@MAINT@	db2html $(srcdir)/gmc.sgml && \
+@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