diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index b7b1b854..aeba3427 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+1999-03-31  Paul D. Smith  <psmith@gnu.org>
+
+	* read.c (readline): Ignore carriage returns at the end of the
+	line, to allow Windows-y CRLF line terminators.
+
 1999-03-30  Paul D. Smith  <psmith@gnu.org>
 
 	* configure.in: Don't put build.sh here, since build.sh.in doesn't
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index c7044b6b..4b6978fc 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 GNU make NEWS                                               -*-indented-text-*-
   History of user-visible changes.
-  22 Mar 1999
+  31 Mar 1999
 
 Copyright (C) 1992,93,94,95,96,97,98,1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 See the end for copying conditions.
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ Version 3.78
 * Make defines a new variable, .LIBPATTERNS.  This variable controls how
   the link library dependency expansion (dependencies like ``-lfoo'') is
   performed.
+
+* Make allows CRLF sequences as well as traditional LF, in makefiles for
+  UNIX.
 
 Version 3.77
 
@@ -682,7 +685,3 @@ Copyright information:
    Permission is granted to distribute modified versions of this
    document, or of portions of it, under the above conditions, provided
    also that they carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
-
-Local variables:
-version-control: never
-end:
diff --git a/read.c b/read.c
index 1ce892d0..1b340ac4 100644
--- a/read.c
+++ b/read.c
@@ -2129,6 +2129,17 @@ readline (linebuffer, stream, flocp)
 
       ++nlines;
 
+#if !defined(WINDOWS32) && !defined(__MSDOS__)
+      /* Check to see if the line was really ended with CRLF; if so ignore
+         the CR.  */
+      if (len > 1 && p[-2] == '\r')
+        {
+          --len;
+          --p;
+          p[-1] = '\n';
+        }
+#endif
+
       if (len == 1 && p > buffer)
 	/* P is pointing at a newline and it's the beginning of
 	   the buffer returned by the last fgets call.  However,