diff --git a/scripts/ChangeLog b/scripts/ChangeLog
index 652e07fa4..75c4b5ebf 100644
--- a/scripts/ChangeLog
+++ b/scripts/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2003-08-26  Werner Koch  <wk@gnupg.org>
+
+	* autogen.sh: Touch po/all for --build-w32.
+
 2003-08-01  David Shaw  <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>
 
 	* gnupg.spec.in: Make sure that install-info is called in such a
diff --git a/scripts/autogen.sh b/scripts/autogen.sh
index 581c18302..9913d8342 100755
--- a/scripts/autogen.sh
+++ b/scripts/autogen.sh
@@ -67,6 +67,11 @@ if test "$1" = "--build-w32"; then
 
     $tsdir/configure --build=${build} --host=${host} \
                 ${disable_foo_tests} $*
+
+    # Ugly hack to overcome a gettext problem.  Someone should look into
+    # gettext to figure out why the po directory is not ignored as it used
+    # to be.
+    [ $? = 0 ] && touch $tsdir/po/all
     exit $?
 fi