diff --git a/doc/ref/ChangeLog b/doc/ref/ChangeLog
index 2a5738345..943cf93c8 100644
--- a/doc/ref/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/ref/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2002-01-08  Gary Houston  <ghouston@arglist.com>
+
+	* Makefile.am: attempt to use guile from $(top_builddir)/libguile
+	when building autoconf-macros.texi.  There are still problems with
+	modules and running makeinfo when builddir != srcdir.
+
 2002-01-08  Thien-Thi Nguyen  <ttn@giblet.glug.org>
 
 	* data-rep.texi, gh.texi, guile.texi, intro.texi,
diff --git a/doc/ref/Makefile.am b/doc/ref/Makefile.am
index 9e40bfd0b..20d3424b4 100644
--- a/doc/ref/Makefile.am
+++ b/doc/ref/Makefile.am
@@ -37,11 +37,13 @@ guile_TEXINFOS = preface.texi intro.texi program.texi scheme-intro.texi \
 
 ETAGS_ARGS = $(info_TEXINFOS) $(guile_TEXINFOS)
 
+GUILE = $(top_builddir)/libguile/guile
+
 # Automated snarfing
 
 autoconf.texi: autoconf-macros.texi
 autoconf-macros.texi: $(top_srcdir)/guile-config/guile.m4
-	$(top_srcdir)/scripts/snarf-guile-m4-docs $< > $@
+	GUILE=$(GUILE) $(top_srcdir)/scripts/snarf-guile-m4-docs $< > $@
 
 # Optionally support building an HTML version of the reference manual.