diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index fdcdafe8e0..f8ddeaa833 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Thu Sep  4 14:16:20 BST 2008 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
+
+	* qemud/Makefile.am: Fix make check when augparse is not
+	available
+
 Thu Sep  4 15:05:34 CEST 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>
 
 	* src/storage_backend_logical.c: fix a miscalculation of command line
diff --git a/qemud/Makefile.am b/qemud/Makefile.am
index 30353ea26c..5d6ff6397c 100644
--- a/qemud/Makefile.am
+++ b/qemud/Makefile.am
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ libvirtd.init: libvirtd.init.in
 	mv $@-t $@
 
 check-local:
-	test -x $(AUGPARSE) && $(AUGPARSE) -I $(srcdir) test_libvirtd.aug
+	if [ -x $(AUGPARSE) ]; then $(AUGPARSE) -I $(srcdir) test_libvirtd.aug ; fi
 
 else