diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index a09199fae..0e3ddd7a2 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Fri Aug  8 14:13:06 CEST 2008 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
+
+	* makefile.am: adding a check-valgrind target
+
 Fri Aug  8 14:01:59 CEST 2008 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
 
 	* Makefile.am testdict.c: add the new test in 'make check' and
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index eea75d31f..dc06989de 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -172,10 +172,15 @@ runxmlconf_LDADD= $(LDADDS)
 #testOOM_LDADD= $(LDADDS)
 
 runtests:
-	./runtest$(EXEEXT) && ./testapi$(EXEEXT) && ./testdict$(EXEEXT) && ./runxmlconf$(EXEEXT)
+	$(CHECKER) ./runtest$(EXEEXT) && $(CHECKER) ./testapi$(EXEEXT) && $(CHECKER) ./testdict$(EXEEXT) && $(CHECKER) ./runxmlconf$(EXEEXT)
 
 check: all runtests
 
+check-valgrind: all
+	@echo '## Running the regression tests under Valgrind'
+	@echo '## Go get a cup of coffee it is gonna take a while ...'
+	$(MAKE) CHECKER='valgrind -q' check
+
 testall : tests SVGtests SAXtests
 
 tests: XMLtests XMLenttests NStests IDtests Errtests APItests @READER_TEST@ @TEST_SAX@ @TEST_PUSH@ @TEST_HTML@ @TEST_PHTML@  @TEST_VALID@ URItests @TEST_PATTERN@ @TEST_XPATH@ @TEST_XPTR@ @TEST_XINCLUDE@ @TEST_C14N@ @TEST_DEBUG@ @TEST_CATALOG@ @TEST_REGEXPS@ @TEST_SCHEMAS@ @TEST_SCHEMATRON@ @TEST_THREADS@ Timingtests @TEST_VTIME@ @PYTHON_TESTS@ @TEST_MODULES@