diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 9d9124a25723033792cabeb9eb1e359c7bb393d2..674d2136932856a5ee747fc808b4a79bc114743c 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2014-05-28  Niels Möller  <nisse@lysator.liu.se>
+
+	* configure.ac (LIBHOGWEED_LIBS): Be explicit and link
+	libhogweed.so with libnettle.so, not -lnettle.
+	(LIBHOGWEED_LINK): Drop -L. flag, no longer needed, and previously
+	not at the correct position in the link command line.
+
 2014-05-27  Niels Möller  <nisse@lysator.liu.se>
 
 	* examples/ecc-benchmark.c: If mpn_sec_powm is available,
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 025c3bd5b88228d8d84066aabdbb6edc904d716d..000ab4d09c39f4648f61bfac1d38924083fd6c52 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -456,8 +456,8 @@ case "$host_os" in
     LIBHOGWEED_FORLINK=libhogweed.so
     LIBHOGWEED_SONAME='$(LIBHOGWEED_FORLINK).$(LIBHOGWEED_MAJOR)'
     LIBHOGWEED_FILE='$(LIBHOGWEED_SONAME).$(LIBHOGWEED_MINOR)'
-    LIBHOGWEED_LINK='$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -L. -G -h $(LIBHOGWEED_SONAME)'
-    LIBHOGWEED_LIBS='-lnettle -lgmp'
+    LIBHOGWEED_LINK='$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -G -h $(LIBHOGWEED_SONAME)'
+    LIBHOGWEED_LIBS='libnettle.so -lgmp'
     ;;
   *)
     LIBNETTLE_FORLINK=libnettle.so
@@ -469,13 +469,12 @@ case "$host_os" in
     LIBHOGWEED_FORLINK=libhogweed.so
     LIBHOGWEED_SONAME='$(LIBHOGWEED_FORLINK).$(LIBHOGWEED_MAJOR)'
     LIBHOGWEED_FILE='$(LIBHOGWEED_SONAME).$(LIBHOGWEED_MINOR)'
-    LIBHOGWEED_LINK='$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -L. -shared -Wl,-soname=$(LIBHOGWEED_SONAME)'
+    LIBHOGWEED_LINK='$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -shared -Wl,-soname=$(LIBHOGWEED_SONAME)'
     # Requested by debian, to make linking with only -lhogweed work
     # (does not work in general, e.g., with static linking all of
     # -lhogweed -lgmp -lnettle are still required). Also makes dlopen
     # of libhogweed.so work, without having to use RTLD_GLOBAL.
-    # Depends on -L. above, to locate nettle.so.
-    LIBHOGWEED_LIBS='-lnettle -lgmp'
+    LIBHOGWEED_LIBS='libnettle.so -lgmp'
     ;;
 esac