diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index c571e6e2e7..c6c17f686b 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+2005-05-08  Zeeshan Ali  <zeenix@gmail.com>
+
+	* configure.ac:
+	* ext/mad/Makefile.am:
+	* effectv/Makefile.am:
+	Fixed a few things to enable the mad and effectv to be able to find the
+	headers in the gst-plugins-base/gst-libs and to link against the libs
+	in there.
+
 2005-05-07  Zeeshan Ali  <zeenix@gmail.com>
 
 	* configure.ac:
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 5cb7b3db42..1939c4c58a 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -263,8 +263,8 @@ if test "x$HAVE_GST_PLUGINS" = "xno"; then
   AC_MSG_ERROR(no GStreamer Plugins Libs found)
 fi
 
-AC_SUBST(GST_PLUGINS_LIBS)
-AC_SUBST(GST_PLUGINS_CFLAGS)
+AC_SUBST(GST_PLUGINS_LIBS_LIBS)
+AC_SUBST(GST_PLUGINS_LIBS_CFLAGS)
 
 dnl Determine endianness
 AC_C_BIGENDIAN
diff --git a/ext/mad/Makefile.am b/ext/mad/Makefile.am
index dfbee755c7..e50f2f6be5 100644
--- a/ext/mad/Makefile.am
+++ b/ext/mad/Makefile.am
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ plugin_LTLIBRARIES = libgstmad.la
 
 libgstmad_la_SOURCES = gstmad.c gstid3tag.c
 
-libgstmad_la_CFLAGS = $(GST_CFLAGS) $(MAD_CFLAGS) $(ID3_CFLAGS)
+libgstmad_la_CFLAGS = $(GST_CFLAGS) $(GST_PLUGINS_LIBS_CFLAGS) $(MAD_CFLAGS) $(ID3_CFLAGS)
 libgstmad_la_LIBADD = $(MAD_LIBS) $(ID3_LIBS) $(GST_INTERFACES_LIBS)
-libgstmad_la_LDFLAGS = $(GST_PLUGIN_LDFLAGS)
+libgstmad_la_LDFLAGS = $(GST_PLUGIN_LDFLAGS) $(GST_PLUGINS_LIBS_CFLAGS) 
 
 noinst_HEADERS = gstmad.h