diff --git a/mapserver.changes b/mapserver.changes
index c8172d9..dfd43d9 100644
--- a/mapserver.changes
+++ b/mapserver.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Jan 30 17:48:35 UTC 2012 - dassau@gbd-consult.de
+
+- added XTRALIBS=-ldl as configure option 
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Nov 23 15:09:01 UTC 2011 - opensuse@dstoecker.de
 
diff --git a/mapserver.spec b/mapserver.spec
index 182be01..81b812b 100644
--- a/mapserver.spec
+++ b/mapserver.spec
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ within the Java programming language.
 %patch -p1
 
 %build
-%configure \
+%configure XTRALIBS=-ldl \
    --with-gd \
    --with-zlib \
    --with-freetype=%{_bindir}/freetype-config \