diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 36b948db2..afbe35e61 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2002-08-25  Juli Mallett  <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>
+
+	* makefile: Fix recursive invocation of make(1) to use
+	the variable MAKE, to use the same utility that was
+	responsible for the invocation of the initial build.
+
 2002-08-25  Miguel de Icaza  <miguel@ximian.com>
 
 	* gtk/TextBuffer.custom: Added SetText with a single argumnet.
diff --git a/makefile b/makefile
index 2849cdb26..5aa23019a 100644
--- a/makefile
+++ b/makefile
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ all: linux
 
 windows:
 	for i in $(DIRS); do					\
-		CSC=$(CSC) make -C $$i windows || exit 1;	\
+		CSC=$(CSC) $(MAKE) -C $$i windows || exit 1;	\
 	done;
 
 unix:
@@ -19,22 +19,22 @@ linux: native binding
 
 binding:
 	for i in $(DIRS); do				\
-		MCS="$(MCS)" make -C $$i || exit 1;\
+		MCS="$(MCS)" $(MAKE) -C $$i || exit 1;\
 	done;
 
 native:
 	for i in $(NATIVE_DIRS); do			\
-		make -C $$i || exit 1;			\
+		$(MAKE) -C $$i || exit 1;		\
 	done
 
 clean:
 	for i in $(NATIVE_DIRS) $(DIRS); do		\
-		make -C $$i clean || exit 1;		\
+		$(MAKE) -C $$i clean || exit 1;		\
 	done;
 
 distclean: clean
 	for i in $(NATIVE_DIRS); do			\
-		make -C $$i distclean || exit 1;	\
+		$(MAKE) -C $$i distclean || exit 1;	\
 	done
 	for i in $(DIRS); do				\
 		rm -f $$i/Makefile;			\
@@ -50,10 +50,10 @@ install: install-native install-binding
 
 install-binding:
 	for i in $(DIRS); do				\
-		make -C $$i install || exit 1;		\
+		$(MAKE) -C $$i install || exit 1;	\
 	done
 
 install-native:
 	for i in $(NATIVE_DIRS); do			\
-		make -C $$i install || exit 1;		\
+		$(MAKE) -C $$i install || exit 1;	\
 	done