diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 0248cbd54a..bb487dc2af 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2008-04-14	Ralf Corsépius <ralf.corsepius@rtems.org>
+
+	* bootstrap: Use find . ... preinstall.am for portability reasons.
+
 2008-02-20	Ralf Corsépius <ralf.corsepius@rtems.org>
 
 	* aclocal/enable-cxx.m4, aclocal/enable-itron.m4,
diff --git a/bootstrap b/bootstrap
index 1dd8c9195d..2f7d4dc450 100755
--- a/bootstrap
+++ b/bootstrap
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ done
 
 case $mode in
 preinstall)
-  confs=`find -name Makefile.am -exec grep -l 'include .*/preinstall\.am' {} \;`
+  confs=`find . -name Makefile.am -exec grep -l 'include .*/preinstall\.am' {} \;`
   for i in $confs; do
     dir=$(dirname $i);
     test "$quite" = "true" || echo "Generating $dir/preinstall.am"