diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 71e72d664..759428330 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 AC_PREREQ(2.56)
 
-AC_INIT(unbound,1.1.2, unbound-bugs@nlnetlabs.nl, unbound)
+AC_INIT(unbound, 1.1.2, unbound-bugs@nlnetlabs.nl, unbound)
 
 LIBUNBOUND_CURRENT=0
 LIBUNBOUND_REVISION=17
diff --git a/doc/Changelog b/doc/Changelog
index 9266a3be0..4464db137 100644
--- a/doc/Changelog
+++ b/doc/Changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+16 December 2008: Wouter
+	- follow makedist improvements from ldns, for maintainers prereleases.
+
 11 December 2008: Wouter
 	- better fix for bug #219: use LOG_NDELAY with openlog() call.
 	  Thanks to Tamas Tevesz.
diff --git a/makedist.sh b/makedist.sh
index d1392a55c..f2198d58e 100755
--- a/makedist.sh
+++ b/makedist.sh
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ svn export "$SVNROOT" unbound || error_cleanup "SVN command failed"
 cd unbound || error_cleanup "Unbound not exported correctly from SVN"
 
 info "Adding libtool utils (libtoolize)."
-libtoolize -c || error_cleanup "libtoolize failed"
+libtoolize -c --install || libtoolize -c || error_cleanup "Libtoolize failed."
 
 info "Building configure script (autoreconf)."
 autoreconf || error_cleanup "Autoconf failed."
@@ -207,8 +207,14 @@ info "Unbound version: $version"
 
 if [ "$SNAPSHOT" = "yes" ]; then
     info "Building Unbound snapshot."
-    version="$version-`date +%Y%m%d`"
-    info "Snapshot version number: $version"
+    version2="$version-`date +%Y%m%d`"
+    info "Snapshot version number: $version2"
+
+    replace_text "configure.ac" "AC_INIT(unbound, $version" "AC_INIT(unbound, $version2"
+    version="$version2"
+
+    info "Rebuilding configure script (autoconf) snapshot."
+    autoreconf || error_cleanup "Autoconf failed."
 fi
 
 replace_all doc/README