diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 76cf0e06..a9236e60 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2000-09-02  Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
+
+	* ltconfig.in: only load $cache_file if it's a regular file
+
 2000-09-02  Assar Westerlund  <assar@sics.se>
 
 	* ltconfig.in: Add back ranlib calls for static libraries if there
diff --git a/ltconfig.in b/ltconfig.in
index a7e1cd0a..e28d0c3a 100755
--- a/ltconfig.in
+++ b/ltconfig.in
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ exec 5>>./config.log
 if test "X${LC_ALL+set}" = Xset; then LC_ALL=C; export LC_ALL; fi
 if test "X${LANG+set}"   = Xset; then LANG=C;   export LANG;   fi
 
-if test -n "$cache_file" && test -r "$cache_file"; then
+if test -n "$cache_file" && test -r "$cache_file" && test -f "$cache_file"; then
   echo "loading cache $cache_file within ltconfig"
   . $cache_file
 fi