diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 842a167e818..a5176fa66dd 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2010-09-04  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@gnu.org>
+
+	* config.bat: Produce lisp/gnus/_dir-locals.el from
+	lisp/gnus/.dir-locals.el.
+
 2010-08-23  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
 
 	* configure.in: Fix check for librsvg, imagemagick and
diff --git a/config.bat b/config.bat
index aac4e108b09..802cacc8897 100644
--- a/config.bat
+++ b/config.bat
@@ -250,6 +250,7 @@ cd ..
 rem   ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 Echo Configuring the lisp directory...
 cd lisp
+If Exist gnus\.dir-locals.el update gnus/.dir-locals.el gnus/_dir-locals.el
 sed -f ../msdos/sedlisp.inp < Makefile.in > Makefile
 cd ..
 rem   ----------------------------------------------------------------------