diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 97ac04820..a9b86d674 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@
                                   Changelog
 
 Daniel S (10 Jan 2008)
+- Michal Marek made curl-config --libs not include /usr/lib64 in the output
+  (it already before skipped /usr/lib).  /usr/lib64 is the default library
+  directory on many 64bit systems and it's unlikely that anyone would use the
+  path privately on systems where it's not.
+
 - Georg Lippitsch brought CURLOPT_SEEKFUNCTION and CURLOPT_SEEKDATA to allow
   libcurl to seek in a given input stream. This is particularly important when
   doing upload resumes when there's already a huge part of the file present
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index 27d22dc94..8013284a4 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ This release includes the following bugfixes:
  o socklen_t is no longer used in the public includes
  o time zone offsets from -1400 to +1400 are now accepted by the date parser
  o allows more spaces in WWW/Proxy-Authenticate: headers
+ o curl-config --libs skips /usr/lib64
 
 This release includes the following known bugs:
 
diff --git a/curl-config.in b/curl-config.in
index ce98bdee3..107fa2c59 100644
--- a/curl-config.in
+++ b/curl-config.in
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 #                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
 #                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
 #
-# Copyright (C) 2001 - 2007, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+# Copyright (C) 2001 - 2008, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
 #
 # This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
 # you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ while test $# -gt 0; do
        	;;
 
     --libs)
-	if test "X@libdir@" != "X/usr/lib"; then
+	if test "X@libdir@" != "X/usr/lib" -a "X@libdir@" != "X/usr/lib64"; then
 	   CURLLIBDIR="-L@libdir@ "
 	else
 	   CURLLIBDIR=""