diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 23311b3424c7..130ecf15cd74 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -8865,7 +8865,7 @@ fi
 if test -n "$MOZ_WEBRTC"; then
    AC_MSG_RESULT("generating WebRTC Makefiles...")
 
-   WEBRTC_CONFIG="-D build_with_mozilla=1 --include ${srcdir}/media/webrtc/webrtc_config.gypi"
+   WEBRTC_CONFIG="-D build_with_mozilla=1 --include ${srcdir}/media/webrtc/webrtc_config.gypi -D FORCED_INCLUDE_FILE=${srcdir}/media/webrtc/webrtc_config.gypi"
 
    GYP_WEBRTC_OPTIONS="--format=mozmake ${WEBRTC_CONFIG} ${EXTRA_GYP_DEFINES} --depth=${srcdir}/media/webrtc/trunk --toplevel-dir=${srcdir} -G OBJDIR=${_objdir}"
 
diff --git a/media/webrtc/trunk/tools/gyp/pylib/gyp/generator/mozmake.py b/media/webrtc/trunk/tools/gyp/pylib/gyp/generator/mozmake.py
index 3ed8d5621957..338d0b767239 100644
--- a/media/webrtc/trunk/tools/gyp/pylib/gyp/generator/mozmake.py
+++ b/media/webrtc/trunk/tools/gyp/pylib/gyp/generator/mozmake.py
@@ -440,10 +440,20 @@ def GenerateOutput(target_list, target_dicts, data, params):
                 swapslashes(top),
                 swapslashes(src),
                 swapslashes(relative_srcdir))
-  scriptname = topsrcdir_path(__file__)
+  scriptname = "$(topsrcdir)/media/webrtc/trunk/tools/gyp/pylib/gyp/generator/mozmake.py"
   # Reassemble a commandline from parts so that all the paths are correct
+  # NOTE: this MUST match the commandline generated in configure.in!
+  # since we don't see --include statements, duplicate them in FORCE_INCLUDE_FILE lines
+  # Being in a define, they also get used by the common.mk invocation of gyp so they
+  # they don't disappear in the second round of tail-swallowing
+  forced_includes = ""
+  for option in options.defines:
+    if option[:20] == "FORCED_INCLUDE_FILE=":
+      forced_includes += "--include=%s" % option[20:]
+
   commandline = [topsrcdir_path(sys.argv[0]),
                  "--format=mozmake",
+                 forced_includes,
                  "--depth=%s" % topsrcdir_path(options.depth),
                  "--generator-output=%s" % objdir_path(options.generator_output),
                  "--toplevel-dir=$(topsrcdir)",