diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 3cb18e9a1e..55eca2a029 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2007-02-14  Stefan Kost  <ensonic@users.sf.net>
+
+	reviewed by: Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>
+
+	* configure.in: determine installation prefixes of dependent libs to
+	crossreference docs (#407146).
+
 2007-02-14  Kristian Rietveld  <kris@imendio.com>
 
 	* gtk/gtktooltip.c (child_location_foreach): check return value
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index d57fe21bff..dd3d1d2846 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -1472,12 +1472,21 @@ if test x"$os_win32" = xyes; then
   GTK_EXTRA_CFLAGS="$msnative_struct"
 fi
 
+GLIB_PREFIX="`$PKG_CONFIG --variable=prefix glib-2.0`"
+ATK_PREFIX="`$PKG_CONFIG --variable=prefix atk`"
+PANGO_PREFIX="`$PKG_CONFIG --variable=prefix pango`"
+CAIRO_PREFIX="`pkg-config --variable=prefix cairo`"
+
 AC_SUBST(GTK_PACKAGES)
 AC_SUBST(GTK_EXTRA_LIBS)
 AC_SUBST(GTK_EXTRA_CFLAGS)
 AC_SUBST(GTK_DEP_LIBS)
 AC_SUBST(GTK_DEP_CFLAGS)
 
+AC_SUBST(GLIB_PREFIX)
+AC_SUBST(ATK_PREFIX)
+AC_SUBST(PANGO_PREFIX)
+AC_SUBST(CAIRO_PREFIX)
 
 AC_SUBST(GTK_DEBUG_FLAGS)
 AC_SUBST(GTK_XIM_FLAGS)