diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index fb7e11caf1..39d0c4b19f 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Sun Jun 10 17:49:20 2007  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* instruby.rb (install_recursive): should check parent directoris of
+	  the destination.  [ruby-dev:30947]
+
 Sun Jun 10 16:59:39 2007  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* parse.y (do_block, brace_block): fix line numbers.  [ruby-dev:30831]
diff --git a/instruby.rb b/instruby.rb
index 91ff79dfb4..a4c4563467 100755
--- a/instruby.rb
+++ b/instruby.rb
@@ -142,6 +142,7 @@ def install_recursive(srcdir, dest, options = {})
     if File.directory?(src)
       makedirs(d)
     else
+      makedirs(File.dirname(d))
       install src, d
     end
   end