diff --git a/m4/guestfs_perl.m4 b/m4/guestfs_perl.m4
index 249772c90..be688b4b4 100644
--- a/m4/guestfs_perl.m4
+++ b/m4/guestfs_perl.m4
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ else
 fi
 
 dnl Define the path to the podwrapper program.
-PODWRAPPER="$PERL $(pwd)/podwrapper.pl"
+PODWRAPPER="\$(guestfs_am_v_podwrapper)$PERL $(pwd)/podwrapper.pl"
 AC_SUBST([PODWRAPPER])
 
 dnl Check for Perl for Perl bindings and Perl tools.
diff --git a/podwrapper.pl.in b/podwrapper.pl.in
index 7322a3029..e9cafed3f 100755
--- a/podwrapper.pl.in
+++ b/podwrapper.pl.in
@@ -520,7 +520,7 @@ if ($man) {
         unlink $man;
         die "$input: errors or warnings in this POD file, see messages above\n"
     }
-    print "$progname: wrote $man\n";
+    #print "$progname: wrote $man\n";
 }
 
 # Output HTML.
@@ -618,7 +618,7 @@ if ($html) {
         unlink $html;
         die "$input: errors or warnings in this POD file, see messages above\n"
     }
-    print "$progname: wrote $html\n";
+    #print "$progname: wrote $html\n";
 }
 
 # Output text.
@@ -637,7 +637,7 @@ if ($text) {
         unlink $text;
         die "$input: errors or warnings in this POD file, see messages above\n"
     }
-    print "$progname: wrote $text\n";
+    #print "$progname: wrote $text\n";
 }
 
 sub read_whole_file
diff --git a/subdir-rules.mk b/subdir-rules.mk
index d6aaba7b6..243293962 100644
--- a/subdir-rules.mk
+++ b/subdir-rules.mk
@@ -69,6 +69,9 @@ guestfs_am_v_javac_0 = @echo "  JAVAC   " $@;
 guestfs_am_v_erlc = $(guestfs_am_v_erlc_@AM_V@)
 guestfs_am_v_erlc_ = $(guestfs_am_v_erlc_@AM_DEFAULT_V@)
 guestfs_am_v_erlc_0 = @echo "  ERLC    " $@;
+guestfs_am_v_podwrapper = $(guestfs_am_v_podwrapper_@AM_V@)
+guestfs_am_v_podwrapper_ = $(guestfs_am_v_podwrapper_@AM_DEFAULT_V@)
+guestfs_am_v_podwrapper_0 = @echo "  POD     " $@;
 
 .mli.cmi:
 	$(guestfs_am_v_ocamlc)$(OCAMLFIND) ocamlc $(OCAMLFLAGS) $(OCAMLPACKAGES) -c $< -o $@