diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index aeacd7a2c2..006a58ce25 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Thu Sep 12 21:35:46 2013  Naohisa Goto  <ngotogenome@gmail.com>
+
+	* Makefile.in (libruby-static.a): change LDFLAGS order. LDFLAGS may
+	  include library path that should be specified before LIBS.
+	  [ruby-dev:47707] [Bug #8901]
+
 Thu Sep 12 20:07:29 2013  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* vsnprintf.c (MAXEXP, MAXFRACT): calculate depending on constants in
diff --git a/Makefile.in b/Makefile.in
index 0034381630..7e8ed8294b 100644
--- a/Makefile.in
+++ b/Makefile.in
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ $(LIBRUBY_A):
 		$(Q) $(AR) $(ARFLAGS) $@ $(LIBRUBY_A_OBJS) $(DMYEXT)
 		@-$(RANLIB) $@ 2> /dev/null || true
 		$(ECHO) verifying static-library $@
-		@$(PURIFY) $(CC) $(XLDFLAGS) $(MAINOBJ) $(LIBRUBY_A) $(MAINLIBS) $(EXTLIBS) $(LIBS) $(OUTFLAG)conftest$(EXEEXT) $(LDFLAGS)
+		@$(PURIFY) $(CC) $(LDFLAGS) $(XLDFLAGS) $(MAINOBJ) $(LIBRUBY_A) $(MAINLIBS) $(EXTLIBS) $(LIBS) $(OUTFLAG)conftest$(EXEEXT)
 		@$(RM) conftest$(EXEEXT) conftest.c
 
 $(LIBRUBY_SO):