diff --git a/libguile/ChangeLog b/libguile/ChangeLog
index 30eb1ca35..c6b092147 100644
--- a/libguile/ChangeLog
+++ b/libguile/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2000-11-18  Gary Houston  <ghouston@arglist.com>
+
+	* Makefile.am (.c.x): don't prefix ".:" to $PATH when running
+	guile-doc-snarf.  it doesn't seem to do anything useful, but would
+	fail if $PATH contained whitespace.  Thanks to Lars J. Aas.
+
 2000-11-17  Marius Vollmer  <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
 
 	* alist.c, arbiters.c, async.c, backtrace.c, boolean.c, chars.c,
diff --git a/libguile/Makefile.am b/libguile/Makefile.am
index b85f86373..fb523e2aa 100644
--- a/libguile/Makefile.am
+++ b/libguile/Makefile.am
@@ -182,10 +182,10 @@ libpath.h: $(srcdir)/Makefile.in  $(top_builddir)/config.status
 
 SUFFIXES = .x .doc
 .c.x:
-	PATH=.:${PATH} ./guile-doc-snarf $< $(DEFS) $(INCLUDES) $(CPPFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) $< > $@ \
+	./guile-doc-snarf $< $(DEFS) $(INCLUDES) $(CPPFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) $< > $@ \
 	|| { rm $@; false; }
 .x.doc: 
-	PATH=.:${PATH} ./guile-doc-snarf $(srcdir)/$*.c $(DEFS) $(INCLUDES) $(CPPFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) $(srcdir)/$*.c > /dev/null \
+	./guile-doc-snarf $(srcdir)/$*.c $(DEFS) $(INCLUDES) $(CPPFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) $(srcdir)/$*.c > /dev/null \
         || { rm $@; false; }
 
 error.x: cpp_err_symbols.c