diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 5a1c759c..bba8db99 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 1999-01-25  Alexandre Oliva  <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br>
 
+	* libltdl/configure.in (libltdl_cv_objdir): yes, appending the "/" 
+	in configure.in was much simpler
+	* libltdl/ltdl.c (objdir): ditto
+
 	* libltdl/ltdl.c (objdir): string collation isn't portable; strcat 
 	"/" explicitly.  Or should this be moved to configure.in?
 
diff --git a/libltdl/configure.in b/libltdl/configure.in
index 1f4a367f..0c9e55e7 100644
--- a/libltdl/configure.in
+++ b/libltdl/configure.in
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ libltdl_cv_objdir=`cat conftest`
 rm -f conftest
 ])
 test -z "$libltdl_cv_objdir" && libltdl_cv_objdir=".libs"
-AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(LTDL_OBJDIR, "$libltdl_cv_objdir")
+AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(LTDL_OBJDIR, "$libltdl_cv_objdir/")
 
 AC_HEADER_STDC
 AC_CHECK_HEADERS(malloc.h memory.h stdlib.h stdio.h ctype.h dlfcn.h dl.h)
diff --git a/libltdl/ltdl.c b/libltdl/ltdl.c
index 97eb8735..5dc826ef 100644
--- a/libltdl/ltdl.c
+++ b/libltdl/ltdl.c
@@ -823,11 +823,10 @@ find_module (handle, dir, libdir, dlname, old_name, installed)
 		}
 		/* try to open the not-installed module */
 		if (!installed &&
-		    strlen(dir)+strlen(objdir)+1+strlen(dlname)
+		    strlen(dir)+strlen(objdir)+strlen(dlname)
 		    		< LTDL_FILENAME_MAX) {
 			strcpy(filename, dir);
 			strcat(filename, objdir);
-			strcat(filename, "/");
 			strcat(filename, dlname);
 			if (tryall_dlopen(handle, filename) == 0)
 				return 0;