diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index af4b5d678..bee0bc247 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2005-02-23  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>
 
+	* configure.in: Don't forget to set G_THREAD_LIBS_FOR_GTHREAD 
+	on non-linux platforms.  (#168177, Michael Banck)
+
 	* tests/keyfile-test.c (test_locale_string): Set LANGUAGE 
 	instead of LC_ALL to shield against LANGUAGE being set in 
 	the environment.  (#168311, Suren A. Chilingaryan)
diff --git a/ChangeLog.pre-2-10 b/ChangeLog.pre-2-10
index af4b5d678..bee0bc247 100644
--- a/ChangeLog.pre-2-10
+++ b/ChangeLog.pre-2-10
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2005-02-23  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>
 
+	* configure.in: Don't forget to set G_THREAD_LIBS_FOR_GTHREAD 
+	on non-linux platforms.  (#168177, Michael Banck)
+
 	* tests/keyfile-test.c (test_locale_string): Set LANGUAGE 
 	instead of LC_ALL to shield against LANGUAGE being set in 
 	the environment.  (#168311, Suren A. Chilingaryan)
diff --git a/ChangeLog.pre-2-12 b/ChangeLog.pre-2-12
index af4b5d678..bee0bc247 100644
--- a/ChangeLog.pre-2-12
+++ b/ChangeLog.pre-2-12
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2005-02-23  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>
 
+	* configure.in: Don't forget to set G_THREAD_LIBS_FOR_GTHREAD 
+	on non-linux platforms.  (#168177, Michael Banck)
+
 	* tests/keyfile-test.c (test_locale_string): Set LANGUAGE 
 	instead of LC_ALL to shield against LANGUAGE being set in 
 	the environment.  (#168311, Suren A. Chilingaryan)
diff --git a/ChangeLog.pre-2-8 b/ChangeLog.pre-2-8
index af4b5d678..bee0bc247 100644
--- a/ChangeLog.pre-2-8
+++ b/ChangeLog.pre-2-8
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2005-02-23  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>
 
+	* configure.in: Don't forget to set G_THREAD_LIBS_FOR_GTHREAD 
+	on non-linux platforms.  (#168177, Michael Banck)
+
 	* tests/keyfile-test.c (test_locale_string): Set LANGUAGE 
 	instead of LC_ALL to shield against LANGUAGE being set in 
 	the environment.  (#168311, Suren A. Chilingaryan)
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index fc7d7baf3..7ac203abd 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -1878,11 +1878,15 @@ fi
 # 
 #  a) GCC < 3.3 for Linux doesn't include -lpthread when
 #     building shared libraries with linux.
+#  b) libtool doesn't recognize -pthread as a library dependency. 	 
 #
 case $host in
   *-*-linux*)
     G_THREAD_LIBS_FOR_GTHREAD="`echo $G_THREAD_LIBS | sed s/-pthread/-lpthread/`"
     ;;
+  *) 	 
+    G_THREAD_LIBS_FOR_GTHREAD="$G_THREAD_LIBS" 	 
+    ;;
 esac
 
 AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(G_THREAD_SOURCE,"gthread-$have_threads.c",