diff --git a/cpukit/ChangeLog b/cpukit/ChangeLog
index 7eedbb0e29..55ebb28e92 100644
--- a/cpukit/ChangeLog
+++ b/cpukit/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2002-11-15	Ralf Corsepius <corsepiu@faw.uni-ulm.de>
+
+	* aclocal/prog-cc.m4: Acknowledge configuration-time CFLAGS.
+	* automake/compile.am: Acknowledge configuration-time CFLAGS.
+	Remove CFLAGS_DEFAULT.
+
 2002-11-11	Joel Sherrill <joel@OARcorp.com>
 
 	* aclocal/version.m4: Updated to rtems-ss-20021111.
diff --git a/cpukit/aclocal/prog-cc.m4 b/cpukit/aclocal/prog-cc.m4
index c3738bec09..67689c6ccc 100644
--- a/cpukit/aclocal/prog-cc.m4
+++ b/cpukit/aclocal/prog-cc.m4
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ if test "$GCC" = yes; then
 ]
 m4_if([$1],,[],[CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS $1"])
 [
-CFLAGS="-g -Wall"
+CFLAGS=${CFLAGS--g -Wall}
 fi
 
 dnl FIXME: HACK for egcs/cygwin mixing '\\' and '/' in gcc -print-*