diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 0caae5e971..085a936b69 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Wed Feb 27 20:12:35 CET 2008 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
+
+	Make qemud/'s rpcgen rules work.
+	* qemud/Makefile.am (SUFFIXES): Define to .x before implicit rule.
+
 Wed Feb 27 16:11:00 UTC 2008 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
 
 	virMacAddrCompare for comparing MAC addresses
diff --git a/qemud/Makefile.am b/qemud/Makefile.am
index 1e1f86175e..3094b18f2e 100644
--- a/qemud/Makefile.am
+++ b/qemud/Makefile.am
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ EXTRA_DIST = libvirtd.init.in libvirtd.sysconf default-network.xml \
         libvirtd.conf
 
 if RPCGEN
+SUFFIXES = .x
 .x.c:
 	rm -f $@
 	rpcgen -c -o $@ $<