diff --git a/src/frontends/xforms/forms/Makefile.am b/src/frontends/xforms/forms/Makefile.am
index 3245dcf7db..3232c3b404 100644
--- a/src/frontends/xforms/forms/Makefile.am
+++ b/src/frontends/xforms/forms/Makefile.am
@@ -1,6 +1,70 @@
 include $(top_srcdir)/config/common.am
 
-all:
+SHELL = /bin/sh
+.SUFFIXES: .fd .c
+
+SRCS =  form_aboutlyx.fd \
+	form_bibitem.fd \
+	form_bibtex.fd \
+	form_bibtex.fd \
+	form_browser.fd \
+	form_character.fd \
+	form_citation.fd \
+	form_document.fd \
+	form_error.fd \
+	form_ert.fd \
+	form_external.fd \
+	form_filedialog.fd \
+	form_float.fd \
+	form_forks.fd \
+	form_graphics.fd \
+	form_include.fd \
+	form_index.fd \
+	form_maths_deco.fd \
+	form_maths_delim.fd \
+	form_maths_matrix.fd \
+	form_maths_panel.fd \
+	form_maths_space.fd \
+	form_maths_style.fd \
+	form_minipage.fd \
+	form_paragraph.fd \
+	form_preamble.fd \
+	form_preferences.fd \
+	form_print.fd \
+	form_ref.fd \
+	form_search.fd \
+	form_sendto.fd \
+	form_spellchecker.fd \
+	form_tabular.fd \
+	form_tabular_create.fd \
+	form_texinfo.fd \
+	form_thesaurus.fd \
+	form_toc.fd \
+	form_url.fd
+
+OBJS = $(SRCS:.fd=.C)
+
+#all:
+#	@echo "This is a makefile intended for the maintainer only."
+#	@echo "Only run it if you are absolutely sure about what you"
+#	@echo "are doing."
+
+test: clean $(OBJS)
+
+updatesrc: test
+	for fil in *.C *.h; \
+	do cmp -s $$fil ../$$fil || mv $$fil ..; \
+	done
+	rm -f *.[hHcC] *.bak
+
+.fd.C:
+	${SHELL} ./fdfix.sh $<
+
+clean-local:
+	rm -f *.[hHcC] *.bak fdfixc_modified.sed
+
+distclean-local:
+	rm -f *.orig *.rej *~
 
 updatesrc:
 	$(MAKE) -f makefile updatesrc
diff --git a/src/frontends/xforms/forms/makefile b/src/frontends/xforms/forms/makefile.old
similarity index 100%
rename from src/frontends/xforms/forms/makefile
rename to src/frontends/xforms/forms/makefile.old