diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 4fed60c7..bbd1fa3c 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+1999-10-16  Alexandre Oliva  <oliva@lsd.ic.unicamp.br>
+
+	* libltdl/ltdl.c (lt_dlopen): Do not search paths when the
+	specified library is not just a basename.
+
 1999-10-10  Gary V. Vaughan  <gary@oranda.demon.co.uk>
 
 	* libtool.m4 (AC_PATH_FILE): new macro replaces
diff --git a/libltdl/ltdl.c b/libltdl/ltdl.c
index 0b72a63c..831ec93f 100644
--- a/libltdl/ltdl.c
+++ b/libltdl/ltdl.c
@@ -1367,7 +1367,7 @@ lt_dlopen (filename)
 		handle->deplibs = 0;
 		newhandle = handle;
 		if (tryall_dlopen(&newhandle, filename)
-		    && (!dir
+		    && (dir
 			|| (!find_file(basename, user_search_path,
 					  0, &newhandle)
 			    && !find_file(basename,