diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 05fc95d5a9..4fed4eb0ce 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2006-01-17  Edward Hervey  <edward@fluendo.com>
+
+	* configure.ac:
+	Add --with-pkg-config-path argument.
+	Closes #319248
+
 2006-01-12  Andy Wingo  <wingo@pobox.com>
 
 	* libavcodec/utils.c: Fix for CVE-2005-4048 (bugzilla bug
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 0c142413ea..0ad17048f5 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -82,6 +82,8 @@ AC_SUBST(GST_PLUGIN_LDFLAGS)
 dnl Determine CPU
 GST_ARCH()
 
+GST_ARG_WITH_PKG_CONFIG_PATH
+
 dnl ###########################
 dnl # Configure external libs #
 dnl ###########################