diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index bd08fbd335..31acf39615 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Sat Mar 20 21:21:03 2004  WATANABE Hirofumi  <eban@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* ext/extmk.rb: rm -rf $extout, not extout.
+
 Sat Mar 20 15:25:36 2004  Dave Thomas  <dave@pragprog.com>
 
 	* lib/rdoc/generators/template/html/html.rb (RDoc::Page): Force
diff --git a/ext/extmk.rb b/ext/extmk.rb
index 427313bd58..4abe6a119d 100644
--- a/ext/extmk.rb
+++ b/ext/extmk.rb
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ if $ignore
   Dir.chdir ".."
   if $clean
     Dir.rmdir('ext') rescue nil
-    FileUtils.rm_rf(extout) if $extout
+    FileUtils.rm_rf($extout) if $extout
   end
   exit
 end