diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 14f61238db..e97dd18810 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Thu Oct  5 13:26:37 1995  Brendan Kehoe  <brendan@lisa.cygnus.com>
+
+	* configure.in: Allow configuration and build of emacs19 for the alpha.
+
 Wed Oct  4 22:05:36 1995  Jason Molenda  (crash@phydeaux.cygnus.com)
 
 	* configure.in (CC): Get ^CC, not just any old CC, from
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 82cb6da815..531e89f90f 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -354,9 +354,8 @@ case "${target}" in
     ;;
   alpha-dec-osf*)
     # ld works, but does not support shared libraries.  emacs doesn't
-    # work.  newlib is not 64 bit ready.  I'm not sure about emacs19,
-    # fileutils or grep.
-    noconfigdirs="$noconfigdirs ld emacs emacs19 fileutils grep newlib"
+    # work.  newlib is not 64 bit ready.  I'm not sure about fileutils or grep.
+    noconfigdirs="$noconfigdirs ld emacs fileutils grep newlib"
     ;;
   alpha*-*-*)
     # newlib is not 64 bit ready