diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 1a6073d7ac..f36c022b46 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2008-12-04  Sebastian Dröge  <sebastian.droege@collabora.co.uk>
+
+	* configure.ac:
+	Set AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR to common/m4 to point autoconf to
+	our M4 macros.
+
 2008-11-19  Alessandro Decina  <alessandro.d@gmail.com>
 
 	* gst/gst.override:
diff --git a/common b/common
index e4b2fe4472..a8728f3f81 160000
--- a/common
+++ b/common
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit e4b2fe44724e1c1a6e816ae4fbbae43d7f68f1ef
+Subproject commit a8728f3f810904c94f0b6678a7633d551514f335
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 3f75948ac5..bae2f7be48 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ AS_NANO(GST_CVS="no", GST_CVS="yes")
 dnl can autoconf find the source ?
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([gst/gstmodule.c])
 
+dnl where are our m4 macros ?
+AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([common/m4])
+
 dnl define the output header for config
 AM_CONFIG_HEADER([config.h])