diff --git a/build_tools/make_tarball.sh b/build_tools/make_tarball.sh
index 3888f4340..2c3a0ac1b 100755
--- a/build_tools/make_tarball.sh
+++ b/build_tools/make_tarball.sh
@@ -33,17 +33,18 @@ rm -f "$path" "$path".gz
 git archive --format=tar --prefix="$prefix"/ master > "$path"
 
 # tarball out the documentation, generate a configure script and version file
-autoconf
-make user_doc
-make share/man
+autoreconf
+./configure --with-doxygen
+make user_doc share/man
 echo $VERSION > version
 cd /tmp
 rm -f "$prefix"
 ln -s "$wd" "$prefix"
-gnutar --append --file="$path" "$prefix"/user_doc/html
-gnutar --append --file="$path" "$prefix"/share/man
-gnutar --append --file="$path" "$prefix"/version
-gnutar --append --file="$path" "$prefix"/configure
+TAR_APPEND="gnutar --append --file=$path --mtime=now --owner=root --group=root --mode=g+w,a+rX"
+$TAR_APPEND --no-recursion "$prefix"/user_doc
+$TAR_APPEND "$prefix"/user_doc/html "$prefix"/share/man
+$TAR_APPEND "$prefix"/version
+$TAR_APPEND "$prefix"/configure "$prefix"/config.h.in
 rm -f "$prefix"/version
 rm -f "$prefix"