diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 3d2bd73453..59bd4edab1 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Fri Jan 25 17:48:43 2002  WATANABE Hirofumi  <eban@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* configure.in (solaris): add '-shared' only for GNU ld. 
+
 Fri Jan 25 17:16:23 2002  Yukihiro Matsumoto  <matz@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* class.c (rb_include_module): detect cyclic module inclusion.
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 4a0af908e6..f7cc86dfca 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -586,8 +586,11 @@ if test "$with_dln_a_out" != yes; then
 			LDFLAGS="-Wl,-E"
 			rb_cv_dlopen=yes;;
 	solaris*) 	if test "$GCC" = yes; then
-			   LDSHARED='$(CC) -Wl,-G -shared'
-			   `$CC --print-prog-name=ld` -v 2>&1 | grep "GNU ld" > /dev/null && LDFLAGS="-Wl,-E"
+			   LDSHARED='$(CC) -Wl,-G'
+			   if `$CC --print-prog-name=ld` -v 2>&1 | grep "GNU ld" > /dev/null; then
+	 		       LDFLAGS="-Wl,-E"
+			       LDSHARED="$LDSHARED -shared"
+			   fi
 			else
 			   LDSHARED='ld -G'
 			fi
diff --git a/version.h b/version.h
index 07e6bd6cc5..354c571390 100644
--- a/version.h
+++ b/version.h
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 #define RUBY_VERSION "1.7.2"
-#define RUBY_RELEASE_DATE "2002-01-23"
+#define RUBY_RELEASE_DATE "2002-01-25"
 #define RUBY_VERSION_CODE 172
-#define RUBY_RELEASE_CODE 20020123
+#define RUBY_RELEASE_CODE 20020125