diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index a0fba361d5..39d7fc4f44 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ Sat Jun 26 11:07:20 2004  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
 	* configure.in (aix): -b must come at the start of the command line,
 	  and -e must not appear while testing libraries.  [ruby-talk:104501]
 
-	* lib/mkmf.rb (libpathflag, find_header, dir_config): quote directory
-	  names if necessary.  [ruby-talk:104505]
+	* lib/mkmf.rb (find_header, dir_config): quote directory names if
+	  necessary.  [ruby-talk:104505]
 
 Sat Jun 26 00:13:08 2004  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
 
diff --git a/lib/mkmf.rb b/lib/mkmf.rb
index f132bf31b9..f02a006f13 100644
--- a/lib/mkmf.rb
+++ b/lib/mkmf.rb
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ end
 def libpathflag(libpath=$LIBPATH)
   libpath.map{|x|
     (x == "$(topdir)" ? LIBPATHFLAG : LIBPATHFLAG+RPATHFLAG) % x
-  }.quote.join
+  }.join
 end
 
 def try_link0(src, opt="", &b)