diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index bbb336a4..352af25f 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2011-09-04  Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk> (tiny change)
+
+	* configure.ac: Check for libz when gnutls is used.
+
 2011-08-26  Giuseppe Scrivano  <gscrivano@gnu.org>
 
 	* configure.ac: Under mingw don't check for static OpenSSL
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 9007a0ee..76c6fa28 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ AS_IF([test x"$with_ssl" = xopenssl], [
 AS_IF([test x$ssl_found != xyes],
 [
   dnl Now actually check for -lssl if it wasn't already found
-    AC_LIB_HAVE_LINKFLAGS([ssl], [crypto], [
+    AC_LIB_HAVE_LINKFLAGS([ssl], [crypto z], [
   #include <openssl/ssl.h>
   #include <openssl/x509.h>
   #include <openssl/err.h>