diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 87b259118a76a8d2a6e36778628207f093ff365e..288304b7032412bffe05e4c804b8560f06964054 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2004-12-05  Niels Möller  <nisse@lysator.liu.se>
+
+	* config.make.in (.PRECIOUS): Reverted earlier change. We need
+	.PRECIOUS to stop GNU make from deleting object files for the test
+	programs.
+
 2004-12-02  Niels Möller  <nisse@lysator.liu.se>
 
 	* Makefile.in (.SUFFIXES): Moved from Makefile.in to...
diff --git a/config.make.in b/config.make.in
index 404389c1cbd66e9146e76126d568e8af236834e8..713f54e596b93035713289328a3269653cd71cee 100644
--- a/config.make.in
+++ b/config.make.in
@@ -74,6 +74,9 @@ default: all
 %$(EXEEXT) : %.c
 .c:
 
+# Keep object files
+.PRECIOUS: %.o
+
 .PHONY: all check install uninstall clean distclean mostlyclean maintainer-clean distdir \
 	all-here check-here install-here clean-here distclean-here mostlyclean-here \
 	maintainer-clean-here distdir-here \