diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 052d7f6b61..c3555a7d7c 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2001-03-23  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
+
+	* README-maintainer-mode: Add note about inability to use "make
+	distclean" in maintainer mode.
+
 2001-03-22  Alexandre Oliva  <aoliva@redhat.com>
 
 	Re-installed:
diff --git a/README-maintainer-mode b/README-maintainer-mode
index ee57e8486e..fbe508f0c6 100644
--- a/README-maintainer-mode
+++ b/README-maintainer-mode
@@ -4,3 +4,11 @@
 Note that if you configure with --enable-maintainer-mode, you will need
 special versions of automake, autoconf, libtool and gettext. You will
 find the sources for these in ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/binutils.
+
+Note - "make distclean" does not work with maintainer mode enabled.
+The Makefiles in the some of the po/ subdirectories depend upon the
+Makefiles in their parent directories, and distclean will delete the
+Makefiles in the parent directories before running the Makefiles in
+the child directories.  There is no easy way around this (short of
+changing the automake macros) as these dependencies need to exist in
+order to correctly build the NLS files.