diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 4fe05e8323..e9810a0851 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2005-04-07  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>
 
+	* configure.in: Replace an explicit pkg-config by 
+	$PKG_CONFIG.  (#168074, Hans-Wolfgang Loidl)
+
 	* gdk/gdkpango.c (gdk_pango_layout_line_get_clip_region): 
 	Ignore regions which fall completely outside the line.  
 	(#165862, Felipe Heidrich)
diff --git a/ChangeLog.pre-2-10 b/ChangeLog.pre-2-10
index 4fe05e8323..e9810a0851 100644
--- a/ChangeLog.pre-2-10
+++ b/ChangeLog.pre-2-10
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2005-04-07  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>
 
+	* configure.in: Replace an explicit pkg-config by 
+	$PKG_CONFIG.  (#168074, Hans-Wolfgang Loidl)
+
 	* gdk/gdkpango.c (gdk_pango_layout_line_get_clip_region): 
 	Ignore regions which fall completely outside the line.  
 	(#165862, Felipe Heidrich)
diff --git a/ChangeLog.pre-2-8 b/ChangeLog.pre-2-8
index 4fe05e8323..e9810a0851 100644
--- a/ChangeLog.pre-2-8
+++ b/ChangeLog.pre-2-8
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2005-04-07  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>
 
+	* configure.in: Replace an explicit pkg-config by 
+	$PKG_CONFIG.  (#168074, Hans-Wolfgang Loidl)
+
 	* gdk/gdkpango.c (gdk_pango_layout_line_get_clip_region): 
 	Ignore regions which fall completely outside the line.  
 	(#165862, Felipe Heidrich)
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 175f81949f..760c4d0369 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -1076,7 +1076,7 @@ if test "x$gdktarget" = "xx11"; then
   
   if test $pango_omitted_x_deps = yes ; then
     # Old versions of Xft didn't necessarily include -lX11 in the output
-    x_libs="`pkg-config --libs xft` -lX11 $X_EXTRA_LIBS"
+    x_libs="`$PKG_CONFIG --libs xft` -lX11 $X_EXTRA_LIBS"
   fi    	
 
   ## Strip the .la files