diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 589306667a..8d181e6cb5 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2007-12-17  Tim-Philipp Müller  <tim at centricular dot net>
+
+	* Makefile.am:
+	  Use new common/win32.mak.
+
 2007-12-17  Wim Taymans  <wim.taymans@collabora.co.uk>
 
 	* gst-libs/gst/audio/gstbaseaudiosrc.c:
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index f63393592c..6187b00ef6 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ DIST_SUBDIRS = 			\
 	m4 			\
 	pkgconfig
 
-win32 = $(shell cat $(top_srcdir)/win32/MANIFEST)
+# include before EXTRA_DIST for win32 assignment
+include $(top_srcdir)/common/win32.mak
 
 EXTRA_DIST = \
 	gst-plugins-base.spec depcomp \
@@ -62,21 +63,6 @@ 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 )
-baselibs='libgstaudio libgstrtp libgstpbutils libgsttag libgstnetbuffer \
-libgstinterfaces libgstvideo libgstriff libgstrtsp libgstcdda'
-check-exports:
-	for l in `eval echo $(baselibs)`; do \
-	  libso=`find "$(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..67b8f4e3c5 160000
--- a/common
+++ b/common
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit a00d4c1966aab517c2694c61d580489ebcbce448
+Subproject commit 67b8f4e3c576945f4d778c9040876af3a5a0756e