diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 7c5a2247..41919aaf 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2005-08-23  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
 
+	* Makefile.maint (web-manual): Fix $(LN_S) to use absolute path.
+	Fix creating the manual for VPATH build.
+
 	* bootstrap: Fix missing replace config -> $auxdir.  ltmain.m4sh
 	is prerequisite to ltmain.sh.  Improve warning message.
 
diff --git a/Makefile.maint b/Makefile.maint
index 3a7ce67a..e4ae4e09 100644
--- a/Makefile.maint
+++ b/Makefile.maint
@@ -238,7 +238,8 @@ delta-xdelta: prev-tarball new-tarball got-xdelta
 
 .PHONY: web-manual
 web-manual:
-	@$(LN_S) $(srcdir)/doc/libtool.texi doc/manual.texi
-	$(TEXI2HTML) -I doc -monolithic -number -verbose doc/manual.texi
-	@mv doc/manual.html manual.html
+	@rm -f doc/manual.texi manual.html
+	@$(LN_S) $(abs_srcdir)/doc/libtool.texi doc/manual.texi
+	$(TEXI2HTML) -I doc -I $(srcdir)/doc -monolithic -number -verbose doc/manual.texi
+	@test -f manual.html || mv doc/manual.html manual.html
 	@rm -f doc/manual.texi