diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 853e9fe84f..90c52541c8 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Sun Jun  4 02:01:10 2000  WATANABE Hirofumi  <eban@os.rim.or.jp>
+
+	* lib/mkmf.rb: do not need to add -L$(topdir) in --enable-shared case.
+
 Thu Jun  1 00:59:15 2000  Yukihiro Matsumoto  <matz@netlab.co.jp>
 
 	* eval.c (rb_yield_0): convert Qundef to [].
diff --git a/lib/mkmf.rb b/lib/mkmf.rb
index 14016f7a88..d9bc3c5716 100644
--- a/lib/mkmf.rb
+++ b/lib/mkmf.rb
@@ -325,7 +325,6 @@ def create_makefile(target)
 
   if $configure_args['--enable-shared']
     $libs = CONFIG["LIBRUBYARG"] + " " + $libs
-    $DLDFLAGS = $DLDFLAGS + " -L$(topdir)"
   end
 
   defflag = ''