diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 7fa4f020c..f075cc5b1 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 2004-04-12  Henning Meier-Geinitz <henning@meier-geinitz.de>
 
 	* README.windows: Mentioned C++ misdetection trouble.
+	* tools/Makefile.in: In make distclean also clean subdirectories.
 
 2004-04-11  Karl Heinz Kremer <khk@khk.net>
 
diff --git a/tools/Makefile.in b/tools/Makefile.in
index 59cb19a76..251919d85 100644
--- a/tools/Makefile.in
+++ b/tools/Makefile.in
@@ -120,6 +120,9 @@ clean:
 distclean: clean
 	rm -f Makefile $(DESTINATIONS) mustek600iin-off sane-desc
 	rm -f $(DISTCLEAN_FILES)
+	for subdir in $(SUBDIRS) ; do \
+	  ( cd $$subdir ; rm -f $(DISTCLEAN_FILES) ); \
+	done
 
 dist: $(DISTFILES)
 	for subdir in $(SUBDIRS) ; do \