diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index a3e8c32e2..807c9be1c 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2002-10-13  Gary Houston  <ghouston@arglist.com>
+
+	* autogen.sh (ac_version): try automake 1.7 too.
+
 2002-10-05  Marius Vollmer  <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
 
 	* autogen.sh: Make sure that $autoheader is always set.  When we
diff --git a/autogen.sh b/autogen.sh
index 00252629b..522e9d1c0 100755
--- a/autogen.sh
+++ b/autogen.sh
@@ -75,10 +75,10 @@ fi
 #detect automake version
 
 
-# configure.in reqs automake-1.6; try to find it
-for suf in "-1.6" "1.6" ""  false; do
+# configure.in requires particular automake; try to find it
+for suf in "-1.7" "1.7" "-1.6" "1.6" ""  false; do
   version=`automake$suf --version 2>/dev/null | head -1 | awk '{print $NF}' | awk -F. '{print $1 * 10 + $2}'`
-  if test "0$version" -eq 16; then
+  if test "0$version" -eq 17 -o "0$version" -eq 16; then
     automake=automake$suf
     break
   fi
@@ -89,7 +89,6 @@ if test -z "$automake"; then
     exit 1
 fi
 
-
 ################################################################
 $autoheader
 $autoconf