diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 3449c6ea94..b6b6b1ad18 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2001-09-19	Ralf Corsepius <corsepiu@faw.uni-ulm.de>
+
+	* automake/leaf.am: New file.
+
 2001-09-14	Ralf Corsepius <corsepiu@faw.uni-ulm.de>
 
 	* aclocal/canonical-target-name.m4: Use AC_CANONICAL_TARGET instead
diff --git a/automake/leaf.am b/automake/leaf.am
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b36ed33fbb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/automake/leaf.am
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+include $(RTEMS_ROOT)/make/leaf.cfg
+
+ifndef make-cxx-exe
+define make-cxx-exe
+	$(LINK.cc) $(AM_CFLAGS) $(AM_LDFLAGS) \
+	$(LDLIBS) -o $@ \
+	$(LINK_OBJS) $(LINK_LIBS)
+endef
+@ENDIF@