diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 2418a6be1e5b2639f69ea06e06d154701b548253..8eecf2159eb39485079355192860f57a2794ce38 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -434,6 +434,8 @@ AC_PROG_CPP
 dnl ** figure out how to do context diffs
 FPTOOLS_PROG_DIFF
 
+dnl ** Find find command (for Win32's benefit)
+AC_PATH_PROG(FindCmd, find)
 
 dnl ** look for a decent parser generator (bison preferred)
 dnl (FPTOOLS_PROG_YACCY is AC_PROG_YACC, but with some extra testing 
diff --git a/mk/config.mk.in b/mk/config.mk.in
index 75a45107110dbfe8e8d76fa304f78d806e09a3b2..f18a1e742b1cb9ba94bd9f0c0ca04c23f2bc9d44 100644
--- a/mk/config.mk.in
+++ b/mk/config.mk.in
@@ -557,6 +557,7 @@ CP			= cp
 CPP			= @CPP@
 CTAGS 			= $(ETAGS)
 RAWCPP                  = $(CPP) -undef -traditional
+FIND			= @FindCmd@
 INSTALL			= @INSTALL@
 #
 # Sigh - the autoconf macro for INSTALL will subst a relative path to the fallback