diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 8f85d088..1216e67f 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -8473,3 +8473,5 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   direction (see MANUAL for details).
 - Fixed cCamSlot::Assign(), so that it actually ignores the value of Query if Device
   is NULL (as described in the header file).
+- Added a missing VDRDIR="$(CWD)" to the clean-plugins target of the Makefile, to
+  avoid error messages regarding the missing vdr.pc file.
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 40a610ae..a69fb4eb 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
 # how to reach the author.
 #
-# $Id: Makefile 3.4 2015/01/01 13:52:07 kls Exp $
+# $Id: Makefile 3.5 2015/02/02 14:47:24 kls Exp $
 
 .DELETE_ON_ERROR:
 
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ plugins: include-dir vdr.pc
 	if [ -n "$$failed" ] ; then echo; echo "*** failed plugins:$$failed"; echo; exit 1; fi
 
 clean-plugins:
-	@for i in `ls $(PLUGINDIR)/src | grep -v '[^a-z0-9]'`; do $(MAKE) --no-print-directory -C "$(PLUGINDIR)/src/$$i" clean; done
+	@for i in `ls $(PLUGINDIR)/src | grep -v '[^a-z0-9]'`; do $(MAKE) --no-print-directory -C "$(PLUGINDIR)/src/$$i" VDRDIR="$(CWD)" clean; done
 	@-rm -f $(PLUGINDIR)/lib/lib*-*.so.$(APIVERSION)
 
 # Install the files (note that 'install-pc' must be first!):