diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 445c03c1..41b5134f 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+1999-01-22  Alexandre Oliva  <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br>
+
+	* demo/configure.in, demo/Makefile.am (DLPREOPEN): reverted; it
+	didn't make any difference.
+
 1999-01-21  Gary V. Vaughan  <garyv@oranda.demon.co.uk>
 
 	* THANKS: Added Chris Laas <golem@MIT.EDU>
diff --git a/demo/Makefile.am b/demo/Makefile.am
index b561d9df..4c8cf4d7 100644
--- a/demo/Makefile.am
+++ b/demo/Makefile.am
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ if BINARY_HELLDL
 
 # Create a version of hell that does a preloaded dlopen.
 helldl_SOURCES = dlmain.c
-helldl_LDFLAGS = -export-dynamic $(DLPREOPEN) libhello.la
+helldl_LDFLAGS = -export-dynamic -dlpreopen libhello.la
 helldl_DEPENDENCIES = libhello.la
 
 else
diff --git a/demo/configure.in b/demo/configure.in
index 8f99a3eb..e0fac772 100644
--- a/demo/configure.in
+++ b/demo/configure.in
@@ -9,13 +9,10 @@ AM_PROG_LIBTOOL
 
 if ${CONFIG_SHELL} ./libtool --features | grep "enable static" >/dev/null; then
   STATIC=-static
-  DLPREOPEN=-dlpreopen
 else
   STATIC=
-  DLPREOPEN=-dlopen
 fi
 AC_SUBST(STATIC)
-AC_SUBST(DLPREOPEN)
 
 AM_CONDITIONAL(BINARY_HELLDL, [dnl
 grep '^global_symbol_pipe=..*$' ./libtool >/dev/null])