diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index de9ecb975..6e124f710 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2008-06-04  Robert Bragg  <bob@o-hand.com>
+
+	* configure.ac:
+	Checks that for pangocairo >= 1.18, since
+	pangocairo-font.c uses pango_cairo_font_get_scaled_font which isn't
+	otherwise available.
+
 2008-06-03  Neil Roberts  <neil@o-hand.com>
 
 	Applied patch from bug #947
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 1190cde03..29d0edf54 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ fi
 AC_SUBST(JSON_PREFIX)
 AM_CONDITIONAL(LOCAL_JSON_GLIB, test "x$have_json" = "xno")
 
-CLUTTER_REQUIRES="pangocairo glib-2.0 >= 2.14 gobject-2.0 gthread-2.0 gmodule-2.0 $BACKEND_PC_FILES $JSON_GLIB_PC"
+CLUTTER_REQUIRES="pangocairo >= 1.18 glib-2.0 >= 2.14 gobject-2.0 gthread-2.0 gmodule-2.0 $BACKEND_PC_FILES $JSON_GLIB_PC"
 
 if test "x$imagebackend" = "xgdk-pixbuf"; then
         CLUTTER_REQUIRES="$CLUTTER_REQUIRES gdk-pixbuf-2.0"