diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog
index 7a40e84489e0d295d94fe32bcde0e32611c5ed1b..2c95abb857f4aabe043e48ca0e776b498c7b69ec 100644
--- a/gcc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2004-01-15  Kelley Cook  <kcook@gcc.gnu.org>
+
+	* Makefile.in (MAINT): Make it an immediate assignment.
+
 2004-01-15  Kazu Hirata  <kazu@cs.umass.edu>
 
 	* config/m32r/m32r.md: Remove useless calls to gen_lowpart.
diff --git a/gcc/Makefile.in b/gcc/Makefile.in
index d90e441fea194bc0f008ad94df11fbb6635dfae6..b099e71fbd31f57bc42ccd4eedea9d411de6855d 100644
--- a/gcc/Makefile.in
+++ b/gcc/Makefile.in
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ STRICT2_WARN = -pedantic -Wno-long-long -Wold-style-definition @WERROR@
 NOCOMMON_FLAG = @nocommon_flag@
 
 # This is set by --disable-maintainer-mode (default) to "#"
-MAINT = @MAINT@
+MAINT := @MAINT@
 
 # These are set by --enable-checking=valgrind.
 RUN_GEN = @valgrind_command@