diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index eff54abae0..7d21f12562 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2002-10-13  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@redhat.com>
+
+	* MakeTAGS: Add -E flag to xgettext runs.
+
 2002-10-12  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@redhat.com>
 
 	* po/fr.po: Update from translation team.
diff --git a/MakeTAGS b/MakeTAGS
index e96dda48bc..75f5439bdd 100644
--- a/MakeTAGS
+++ b/MakeTAGS
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ endif
 define extract
 @rm -f $@.new
 $(XGETTEXT) --keyword=_ --keyword=N_ --add-comments=TRANS  --sort-by-file \
-	    --omit-header -n -d - $(XGETTEXTFLAGS-$(@F)) > $@.new $^
+	    --omit-header -E -n -d - $(XGETTEXTFLAGS-$(@F)) > $@.new $^
 mv -f $@.new $@
 endef
 
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ $P/libc.pot: $(all-pot)
 	sed -e 's/VERSION/$(version)/' \
 	    -e "s/DATE/`date +'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M'$$disp`/" \
 	    po/header.pot > $@.new
-	$(XGETTEXT) -d - --omit-header -n $^ >> $@.new
+	$(XGETTEXT) -d - --omit-header -E -n $^ >> $@.new
 	mv -f $@.new $@
 ifeq ($(with-cvs),yes)
 	test ! -d CVS || cvs $(CVSOPTS) ci -m'Regenerated from source files' $@