diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 1acbcc6d909..09c885905e3 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2007-08-13  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+	    Ben Elliston  <bje@au.ibm.com>
+
+	* configure.ac (TOPLEVEL_CONFIGURE_ARGUMENTS, baseargs): Pass
+	--silent if $silent.
+	* configure: Regenerate.
+
 2003-08-12  Zdenek Dvorak  <ook@ucw.cz>
 
 	* MAINTAINERS (Various Maintainers): Add myself as
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index df7479320e4..7b9cc63c6ed 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -1788,6 +1788,9 @@ do
   # Add the quoted argument to the list.
   TOPLEVEL_CONFIGURE_ARGUMENTS="$TOPLEVEL_CONFIGURE_ARGUMENTS $ac_arg"
 done
+if test "$silent" = yes; then
+  TOPLEVEL_CONFIGURE_ARGUMENTS="$TOPLEVEL_CONFIGURE_ARGUMENTS --silent"
+fi
 # Remove the initial space we just introduced and, as these will be
 # expanded by make, quote '$'.
 TOPLEVEL_CONFIGURE_ARGUMENTS=`echo "x$TOPLEVEL_CONFIGURE_ARGUMENTS" | sed -e 's/^x *//' -e 's,\\$,$$,g'`
@@ -5663,6 +5666,9 @@ EOF_SED
 gcc_transform_name=`cat conftestsed.out`
 rm -f conftestsed.out
 baseargs="$baseargs --program-transform-name='${gcc_transform_name}'"
+if test "$silent" = yes; then
+  baseargs="$baseargs --silent"
+fi
 
 # For the build-side libraries, we just need to pretend we're native,
 # and not use the same cache file.  Multilibs are neither needed nor
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 2500cc6f351..8f957f4cdcf 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -101,6 +101,9 @@ do
   # Add the quoted argument to the list.
   TOPLEVEL_CONFIGURE_ARGUMENTS="$TOPLEVEL_CONFIGURE_ARGUMENTS $ac_arg"
 done
+if test "$silent" = yes; then
+  TOPLEVEL_CONFIGURE_ARGUMENTS="$TOPLEVEL_CONFIGURE_ARGUMENTS --silent"
+fi
 # Remove the initial space we just introduced and, as these will be
 # expanded by make, quote '$'.
 TOPLEVEL_CONFIGURE_ARGUMENTS=`echo "x$TOPLEVEL_CONFIGURE_ARGUMENTS" | sed -e 's/^x *//' -e 's,\\$,$$,g'`
@@ -2178,6 +2181,9 @@ EOF_SED
 gcc_transform_name=`cat conftestsed.out`
 rm -f conftestsed.out
 baseargs="$baseargs --program-transform-name='${gcc_transform_name}'"
+if test "$silent" = yes; then
+  baseargs="$baseargs --silent"
+fi
 
 # For the build-side libraries, we just need to pretend we're native,
 # and not use the same cache file.  Multilibs are neither needed nor