diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index bac9e398..50dfe932 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Wed Oct 11 01:23:25 CEST 2000 Daniel Veillard <Daniel.Veillard@w3.org>
+
+	* configure.in: fixed, very broken, make distcheck works again
+
 Wed Oct 11 02:53:10 CEST 2000 Daniel Veillard <Daniel.Veillard@w3.org>
 
 	* More work toward 2.2.5, integrated a number of patches
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index df7bc37f..7cac90f8 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -299,9 +299,12 @@ dnl create the libxml and include links needed to get dependencies right
 dnl
 if test ! -d $srcdir/include/libxml
 then
-    rm -rf $srcdir/include
+    if [ ! -d $srcdir/include ]
+    then
+        rm -f $srcdir/include
+        mkdir $srcdir/include
+    fi
     rm -f $srcdir/libxml
-    mkdir $srcdir/include
     (cd $srcdir/include ; ln -s .. libxml)
 fi
 if test ! -e $srcdir/libxml
@@ -310,8 +313,11 @@ then
 fi
 if test ! -e include/libxml
 then
-    rm -rf include
-    mkdir include
+    if [ ! -d include ]
+    then
+        rm -f include
+        mkdir include
+    fi
     (cd include ; ln -s ../libxml libxml)
 fi
 if test ! -e libxml