diff --git a/texinfo/ChangeLog b/texinfo/ChangeLog
index 2a65dd9198dc789ee762dc93b0a7f690e3d23225..f16f5647276d6e04e8029bc63eaa3f69fe472334 100644
--- a/texinfo/ChangeLog
+++ b/texinfo/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Tue Jan 13 21:34:23 1998  H.J. Lu  (hjl@gnu.org)
+
+	* libtxi/Makefile.in (AR_FLAGS): Defined as "rc".
+
 Tue Dec  2 20:24:40 1997  Bruno Haible  <haible@ilog.fr>
 
 	* makeinfo/makeinfo.c (find_and_load, convert_from_stream):
diff --git a/texinfo/libtxi/Makefile.in b/texinfo/libtxi/Makefile.in
index 8ec2485d9aebdaba593e051dcf41a3a233af09ca..0dae19fb2c2e077990822c66ffe02d32a8796275 100644
--- a/texinfo/libtxi/Makefile.in
+++ b/texinfo/libtxi/Makefile.in
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Makefile for GNU texinfo/libtxi.  -*- Indented-Text -*-
 # $Id: Makefile.in,v 1.4 1998/01/13 20:31:57 law Exp $
 
-# Copyright (C) 1993, 96 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 1993, 96, 98 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ VPATH = @srcdir@
 
 CC = @CC@
 AR = ar
+AR_FLAGS = rc
 RANLIB = @RANLIB@
 
 DEFS = @DEFS@
@@ -52,7 +53,7 @@ sub-all: all
 
 libtxi.a: $(OBJS)
 	rm -f $@
-	$(AR) cq $@ $(OBJS)
+	$(AR) $(AR_FLAGS) $@ $(OBJS)
 	$(RANLIB) $@
 
 getopt.o: getopt.c getopt.h