diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 77de7496b..9f9c47dbe 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -6,6 +6,11 @@
 
                                   Changelog
 
+Daniel (30 September 2004)
+- Jean-Philippe Barrette-LaPierre made buildconf run better on Mac OS X by
+  properly using glibtoolize instead of plain libtoolize. (This is made if
+  glibtool was found and used instead of plain libtool.)
+
 Daniel (29 September 2004)
 - Bertrand Demiddelaer fixed curl_easy_reset() so that it doesn't mistakingly
   enable the progress meter.
diff --git a/buildconf b/buildconf
index 238a3417c..04aeabb34 100755
--- a/buildconf
+++ b/buildconf
@@ -101,6 +101,10 @@ libtool=`findtool glibtool 2>/dev/null`
 if test ! -x "$libtool"; then
   libtool=`findtool libtool`
 fi
+
+# set the LIBTOOLIZE here so that glibtoolize is used if glibtool was found
+LIBTOOLIZE="${libtool}ize"
+
 lt_pversion=`$libtool --version 2>/dev/null|head -1|sed -e 's/^[^0-9]*//g' -e 's/[- ].*//'`
 if test -z "$lt_pversion"; then
   echo "buildconf: libtool not found."