diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 5857ffb0c0..2d2348533d 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2006-01-20  Thomas Vander Stichele  <thomas at apestaart dot org>
+
+	* autogen.sh:
+	  up required version of automake to 1.7
+
 2006-01-20  Sebastien Moutte  <sebastien@moutte.net>
 
 	* win32/common/libgstreamer.def:
diff --git a/autogen.sh b/autogen.sh
index b07fcf399e..16b8929d0f 100755
--- a/autogen.sh
+++ b/autogen.sh
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ if test ! -z "$NOCHECK"; then echo ": skipped version checks"; else  echo; fi
 version_check "autoconf" "$AUTOCONF autoconf autoconf259 autoconf257 autoconf-2.54 autoconf-2.53 autoconf253 autoconf-2.52 autoconf252" \
               "ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/autoconf/" 2 52 || DIE=1
 version_check "automake" "$AUTOMAKE automake automake-1.9 automake19 automake-1.8 automake18 automake-1.7 automake17 automake-1.6 automake16" \
-              "ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/automake/" 1 6 || DIE=1
+              "ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/automake/" 1 7 || DIE=1
 version_check "autopoint" "autopoint" \
               "ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gettext/" 0 11 5 || DIE=1
 version_check "libtoolize" "libtoolize libtoolize15" \
diff --git a/common b/common
index e0b121388e..f6cf41686f 160000
--- a/common
+++ b/common
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit e0b121388ece524c0b7035a72bddd191d122d8bf
+Subproject commit f6cf41686f8e610f91f40f2db2131c50a1ec8b35