diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index a39ed7a75a3..646fdbd5ae5 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 Wed May 17 15:55:53 1995  J.T. Conklin  <jtc@rtl.cygnus.com>
 
+	* Makefile.in (config.status): changed target so that
+	  config.status --recheck is executed if configure script changes.
+
 	* monitor.c (monitor_printf): Changed format specification in
 	  error message to work with pre-ansi compilers.
 	  (monitor_load_srec): reduced length of s-records from 128 to 32
diff --git a/gdb/Makefile.in b/gdb/Makefile.in
index 6ca5bac059c..de1f355b049 100644
--- a/gdb/Makefile.in
+++ b/gdb/Makefile.in
@@ -656,10 +656,6 @@ gdb1: gdb
 	rm -f gdb1
 	cp gdb gdb1
 
-config.status:
-	@echo "You must configure gdb.  Look at the README file for details."
-	@false
-
 ### fixme - this can't be right.
 # This checks the configure.in file versus the config/ directory.
 config-check: config-check-hosts config-check-targets
@@ -754,9 +750,12 @@ subdir_do: force
 		else true ; fi ; \
 	done
 
-Makefile: Makefile.in @host_makefile_frag_path@ @target_makefile_frag_path@
+Makefile: Makefile.in config.status @host_makefile_frag_path@ @target_makefile_frag_path@
 	$(SHELL) config.status
 
+config.status: configure
+	$(SHELL) config.status --recheck
+
 force:
 
 # Documentation!