diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d147709e3b..d0eb8d68b6 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Tue Oct 11 21:28:38 2005  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* configure.in (RUBY_FUNC_ATTRIBUTE): check prefixed attribute form
+	  first.  [ruby-dev:27398]
+
 Mon Oct 10 00:09:54 2005  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* parse.y (ripper_initialize): rollback obj_respond_to().
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 03dc06971a..6b4e12e1ec 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ else
   unset rb_c_werror_flag
 fi
 ac_c_werror_flag=yes
-for mac in "x __attribute__ (($1))" "__declspec($1) x" x; do
+for mac in "__attribute__ (($1)) x" "x __attribute__ (($1))" "__declspec($1) x" x; do
   AC_TRY_COMPILE(
     [#define ]attrib[(x) $mac
     ]attrib[(void conftest_attribute_check(void));], [],