diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 167041ed1d..7de209c4e7 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2007-12-17  Tim-Philipp Müller  <tim at centricular dot net>
+
+	* Makefile.am:
+	  The check-exports stuff moved to common/win32.mak, so include that.
+
 2007-12-17  Wim Taymans  <wim.taymans@collabora.co.uk>
 
 	* libs/gst/base/gstbasesrc.c: (gst_base_src_wait_playing),
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 098b82ce93..ada3d7aa87 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -23,10 +23,8 @@ DIST_SUBDIRS = \
 	pkgconfig po \
 	common
 
-win32 = $(shell cat $(top_srcdir)/win32/MANIFEST)
-
-debug:
-	echo $(win32)
+# include before EXTRA_DIST for win32 assignment
+include $(top_srcdir)/common/win32.mak
 
 EXTRA_DIST = \
 	gstreamer.spec gstreamer.spec.in \
@@ -113,20 +111,5 @@ win32-update:
 
 include $(top_srcdir)/common/coverage/lcov.mak
 
-# make sure all symbols we export on linux are defined in the win32 .def too
-# (don't care about other unixes for now, it's enough if it works on one of
-# the linux build bots; we assume .so )
-corelibs='libgstreamer libgstbase libgstcontroller libgstdataprotocol libgstnet'
-check-exports:
-	for l in `eval echo $(corelibs)`; do \
-	  libso=`find "$(top_builddir)" -name "$$l-0.10.so"`; \
-	  libdef="$(top_srcdir)/win32/common/$$l.def"; \
-	  if test "x$$libso" != "x"; then \
-	    echo Checking symbols in $$libso; \
-	    $(top_srcdir)/common/check-exports $$libdef $$libso || exit 1; \
-	  fi; \
-	done
-
 check: check-exports
 
-
diff --git a/common b/common
index a00d4c1966..208ef72f86 160000
--- a/common
+++ b/common
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit a00d4c1966aab517c2694c61d580489ebcbce448
+Subproject commit 208ef72f86e944e6ba6941c68e57ffcea8d2a8f4