diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 6332463ae5..3924743b04 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Mon Dec  3 16:06:57 2001  WATANABE Hirofumi  <eban@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* ext/socket/extconf.rb: remove -L/usr/local/lib.
+
 Mon Dec  3 16:04:16 2001  Usaku Nakamura <usa@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* configure.in: not use X11BASE, since it's not always set.
diff --git a/ext/socket/extconf.rb b/ext/socket/extconf.rb
index 7dadd70078..c795d3f814 100644
--- a/ext/socket/extconf.rb
+++ b/ext/socket/extconf.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 require 'mkmf'
 
-$LIBPATH << "/usr/local/lib" if File.directory?("/usr/local/lib")
 $CPPFLAGS += " -Dss_family=__ss_family -Dss_len=__ss_len"
 
 case RUBY_PLATFORM