diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 614fc95..7a563a7 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2002-10-24  Tor Lillqvist  <tml@iki.fi>
+
+	* configure.in: Move the check for Win32 (which tests the $host
+	variable) and dependent code later, as it turns out that $host
+	isn't normally yet set at that point... (I hadn't noticed as I by
+	habit always pass --host=i386-pc-mingw32 to the configure script,
+	which sets $host.)
+
 2002-10-11  Havoc Pennington  <hp@redhat.com>
 
 	* pkg.c (verify_package): fix to properly cast iter->data to char*
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 40a7c75..d0f55c9 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
 
 AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)
 
+AM_PROG_LIBTOOL
+
+AC_PROG_CC
+
 AC_MSG_CHECKING([for Win32])
 case "$host" in
   *-*-mingw*)
@@ -39,10 +43,6 @@ else
   AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS(glib-1.2.8)
 fi # !native_win32
 
-AM_PROG_LIBTOOL
-
-AC_PROG_CC
-
 AC_FUNC_ALLOCA
 
 AC_CHECK_FUNCS(setresuid setreuid,break)