2 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 1c148aad9..09c74603d 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ Yang Tse (7 Aug 2008)
   expansion which consists of a single double-quoted string as the result of
   concatenating all of them.
 
+- Prevent buildconf from removing 'Makefile' and 'missing' files. This would
+  blow away our CVS checked files 'missing' and 'hiper/Makefile'.
+
 Yang Tse (5 Aug 2008)
 - Changes done to buildconf script. Validate that autom4te and autoconf, as
   well as aclocal and automake, versions match. Improve removal of previous
diff --git a/buildconf b/buildconf
index dfbb949ee..9efb77b14 100755
--- a/buildconf
+++ b/buildconf
@@ -257,7 +257,6 @@ PERL=`findtool ${PERL:-perl}`
 # Remove files generated on previous buildconf/configure run.
 #
 for fname in .deps \
-    Makefile \
     Makefile.in \
     aclocal.m4 \
     aclocal.m4.bak \
@@ -277,7 +276,6 @@ for fname in .deps \
     libtool \
     libtool.m4 \
     ltmain.sh \
-    missing \
     stamp-h1 \
     stamp-h2 \
     stamp-h3 ; do