diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index e5b46ec68..045e3f4ad 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -6,6 +6,11 @@
 
                                   Changelog
 
+Daniel Stenberg (31 Dec 2008)
+- Bas Mevissen reported http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2479030 pointing
+  out that 'reconf' didn't properly point out the m4 subdirectory when running
+  aclocal.
+
 Daniel Stenberg (29 Dec 2008)
  - Phil Lisiecki filed bug report #2413067
   (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2413067) that identified a problem that
diff --git a/reconf b/reconf
index 39405b006..43e55cdb5 100755
--- a/reconf
+++ b/reconf
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ die(){
 	echo "$@" ; exit
 }
 
-aclocal -I . || die "The command 'aclocal -I .' failed"
+aclocal -I . -I m4 || die "The command 'aclocal -I . -I m4' failed"
 autoheader   || die "The command 'autoheader' failed"
 automake     || die "The command 'automake' failed"
 autoconf     || die "The command 'autoconf' failed"