diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 0c32c6a2..597d159c 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2004-03-24  Scott James Remnant  <scott@netsplit.com>
+
+	* libltdl/ltdl.c (sys_dl_open): Don't load libraries with global
+	symbol resolution.
+	* NEWS: Updated.
+
 2004-03-24  Albert Chin-A-Young  <china@thewrittenword.com>
 
 	* m4/libtool.m4: Add new variable, inherit_rpath, if the
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 3b2287c6..0d7c25a4 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ New in 1.5b: 2004-??-??; CVS version 1.5a, Libtool team:
 * Speed up max_cmd_len check.
 * New function in libltdl: lt_dlhandle_find provides access to module handles
   by module name.
+* libltdl no longer loads shared libraries with global symbol resolution.
 * make install now deletes preexisting $prefix/share/libtool before installing
   latest files.
 * Extracting symbols from an import library on cygwin and win32 now works.
diff --git a/libltdl/ltdl.c b/libltdl/ltdl.c
index ed7239da..4efb808d 100644
--- a/libltdl/ltdl.c
+++ b/libltdl/ltdl.c
@@ -1033,17 +1033,6 @@ lt_estrdup (str)
 #  include <sys/dl.h>
 #endif
 
-#ifdef RTLD_GLOBAL
-#  define LT_GLOBAL		RTLD_GLOBAL
-#else
-#  ifdef DL_GLOBAL
-#    define LT_GLOBAL		DL_GLOBAL
-#  endif
-#endif /* !RTLD_GLOBAL */
-#ifndef LT_GLOBAL
-#  define LT_GLOBAL		0
-#endif /* !LT_GLOBAL */
-
 /* We may have to define LT_LAZY_OR_NOW in the command line if we
    find out it does not work in some platform. */
 #ifndef LT_LAZY_OR_NOW
@@ -1079,7 +1068,7 @@ sys_dl_open (loader_data, filename)
      lt_user_data loader_data;
      const char *filename;
 {
-  lt_module   module   = dlopen (filename, LT_GLOBAL | LT_LAZY_OR_NOW);
+  lt_module   module   = dlopen (filename, LT_LAZY_OR_NOW);
 
   if (!module)
     {