diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 68ab2e83b..71ae5b3ab 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2001-12-08  Gregory Casamento <greg_casamento@yahoo.com>
+	* Source/GNUmakefile added SSL_LIB_DIRS += -L$(GNUSTEP_OBJ_DIR)
+	to prevent build from failing when building from scratch.
+	
 2001-12-08  Richard Frith-Macdonald <rfm@gnu.org>
 
 	* Source/NSAttributedString.m: ([initWithCoder:]) fix typo.
diff --git a/Source/GNUmakefile b/Source/GNUmakefile
index a69693ccb..d41120efd 100644
--- a/Source/GNUmakefile
+++ b/Source/GNUmakefile
@@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ ifeq ($(HAVE_OPENSSL), yes)
 # The bundles to be compiled
 BUNDLE_NAME=SSL
 
+# Additional search directories for linking
+SSL_LIB_DIRS += -L$(GNUSTEP_OBJ_DIR)
+
 # The bundle Objective-C source files to be compiled
 SSL_OBJC_FILES = GSUnixSSLHandle.m