diff --git a/libio/ChangeLog b/libio/ChangeLog
index e378b7e41c3..0af11de87b9 100644
--- a/libio/ChangeLog
+++ b/libio/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+1997-12-12  Brendan Kehoe  <brendan@lisa.cygnus.com>
+
+	Don't make gperf depend upon libg++.
+	* config.shared (TOLIBGCXX) [DOING_GPERF]: Delete.
+	(LIBS) [DOING_GPERF]: Make it just `-L../libstdc++ -lstdc++'. 
+
 Thu Dec 11 11:20:59 1997  H.J. Lu  (hjl@gnu.org)
 
 	* configure.in (target frags): Add *-linux-gnu.
diff --git a/libio/config.shared b/libio/config.shared
index 1b23b353090..93393f19efe 100644
--- a/libio/config.shared
+++ b/libio/config.shared
@@ -158,8 +158,7 @@ if test "${DOING_LIBGXX}" = "true" ; then
   echo '# IO_DIR = no-stream'
 elif test "${DOING_GPERF}" = "true" ; then
   echo "IO_DIR = libio"
-  echo "TOLIBGXX = ${TOLIBGXX}"
-  echo "LIBS = -L./${TOLIBGXX} -L./${TOLIBGXX}../libstdc++ -lg++ -lstdc++"
+  echo "LIBS = -L../libstdc++ -lstdc++"
 fi
 
 if [ -z "${ALL}" ] ; then