diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index edfe2e203..d7759f06d 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
 *.so
 *.so.*
 *.m4
+*.diff
+*.patch
 .*
 compile
 core
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index ae91b43d8..32dbd8826 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ AC_PREREQ([2.63])
 AC_INIT([wicked], esyscmd([tr -d '\n' < VERSION]),
 	[http://bugs.opensuse.org], [wicked],
 	[https://github.com/openSUSE/wicked])
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign dist-bzip2 no-dist-gzip])
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign dist-bzip2 no-dist-gzip subdir-objects])
 
 #
 # Note: We consider libwicked as an internal helper library,