diff --git a/config/ChangeLog b/config/ChangeLog
index feb73b94a0f3..9032f091a3f2 100644
--- a/config/ChangeLog
+++ b/config/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2009-02-11  Kai Tietz  <kai.tietz@onevision.com>
+
+	* mh-cygwin (LDFLAGS): Add linker option to increase stack limit
+	up to 8MB.
+
 2009-01-23  Jie Zhang  <jie.zhang@analog.com>
 
 	* tls.m4 (GCC_CHECK_EMUTLS): Define.
diff --git a/config/mh-cygwin b/config/mh-cygwin
index 6c3ab8034d6f..3a9698b38eb8 100644
--- a/config/mh-cygwin
+++ b/config/mh-cygwin
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 EXTRA_TARGET_HOST_ALL_MODULES=maybe-all-libtermcap
 EXTRA_TARGET_HOST_INSTALL_MODULES=maybe-install-libtermcap
 
+# Increase stack limit to same as Linux default.
+LDFLAGS += -Wl,--stack,8388608
+
 all-gdb: maybe-all-libtermcap
 
 install-gdb: maybe-all-libtermcap