diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 0ff75b44aa..83dfbed474 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2005-08-15  Owen Taylor  <otaylor@redhat.com>
+
+	* configure.in: Add -lXext to GDK_EXTRA_LIBS in absence of pkg-config
+	files for x11/xext. (Jonas Bonn)
+
 2005-08-15  Tor Lillqvist  <tml@novell.com>
 
 	* gtk/gtkicontheme.c (theme_lookup_icon): Put debugging printout
diff --git a/ChangeLog.pre-2-10 b/ChangeLog.pre-2-10
index 0ff75b44aa..83dfbed474 100644
--- a/ChangeLog.pre-2-10
+++ b/ChangeLog.pre-2-10
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2005-08-15  Owen Taylor  <otaylor@redhat.com>
+
+	* configure.in: Add -lXext to GDK_EXTRA_LIBS in absence of pkg-config
+	files for x11/xext. (Jonas Bonn)
+
 2005-08-15  Tor Lillqvist  <tml@novell.com>
 
 	* gtk/gtkicontheme.c (theme_lookup_icon): Put debugging printout
diff --git a/ChangeLog.pre-2-8 b/ChangeLog.pre-2-8
index 0ff75b44aa..83dfbed474 100644
--- a/ChangeLog.pre-2-8
+++ b/ChangeLog.pre-2-8
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2005-08-15  Owen Taylor  <otaylor@redhat.com>
+
+	* configure.in: Add -lXext to GDK_EXTRA_LIBS in absence of pkg-config
+	files for x11/xext. (Jonas Bonn)
+
 2005-08-15  Tor Lillqvist  <tml@novell.com>
 
 	* gtk/gtkicontheme.c (theme_lookup_icon): Put debugging printout
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 8459ff31f5..4c09d18518 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -1297,7 +1297,7 @@ if test "x$gdktarget" = "xx11"; then
   if $have_base_x_pc ; then
     GDK_EXTRA_LIBS="$x_extra_libs"
   else
-    GDK_EXTRA_LIBS="$X_LIBS $x_extra_libs -lX11 $GDK_EXTRA_LIBS"
+    GDK_EXTRA_LIBS="$X_LIBS $x_extra_libs -lXext -lX11 $GDK_EXTRA_LIBS"
   fi
 
   CPPFLAGS="$gtk_save_cppflags"