diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 58ca0273fe..8d0d3eafd8 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Sun Mar  8 23:02:50 2009  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* win32/Makefile.sub (LDFLAGS): always prepends -link.
+
 Sun Mar  8 11:39:57 2009  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* configure.in (RUBY_CHECK_SIZEOF): dirty hack to compute multiple
diff --git a/win32/Makefile.sub b/win32/Makefile.sub
index e0657c7158..441e614691 100644
--- a/win32/Makefile.sub
+++ b/win32/Makefile.sub
@@ -165,8 +165,9 @@ CFLAGS = $(RUNTIMEFLAG) $(DEBUGFLAGS) $(WARNFLAGS) $(OPTFLAGS) $(PROCESSOR_FLAG)
 CXXFLAGS = $(CFLAGS)
 !endif
 !if !defined(LDFLAGS)
-LDFLAGS = -link -incremental:no -debug -opt:ref -opt:icf
+LDFLAGS = -incremental:no -debug -opt:ref -opt:icf
 !endif
+LDFLAGS = -link $(LDFLAGS)
 !if !defined(XLDFLAGS)
 XLDFLAGS = -stack:$(STACK)
 !endif