diff --git a/docs/reference/ChangeLog b/docs/reference/ChangeLog
index ff08499dcb..033e149639 100644
--- a/docs/reference/ChangeLog
+++ b/docs/reference/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Tue Mar 26 15:41:49 2002  Owen Taylor  <otaylor@redhat.com>
+
+	* gtk/building.sgml: Add a mention of running ldconfig.
+	(#76126, Bill Nayland.)
+
 Mon Mar 25 11:31:41 2002  Jonathan Blandford  <jrb@redhat.com>
 
 	* gtk/tree_widget.sgml: fix bugs in the code.
diff --git a/docs/reference/gtk/building.sgml b/docs/reference/gtk/building.sgml
index a69a435dc3..1aeef8aa2c 100644
--- a/docs/reference/gtk/building.sgml
+++ b/docs/reference/gtk/building.sgml
@@ -82,7 +82,11 @@ How to compile GTK+ itself
     <para>
       If you don't have permission to write to the directory you are
       installing in, you may have to change to root temporarily before
-      running <literal>make install</literal>.
+      running <literal>make install</literal>. Also, if you are
+      installing in a system directory, on some systems (such as
+      Linux), you will need to run <command>ldconfig</command> after
+      <literal>make install</literal> so that the newly installed
+      libraries will be found.
     </para>
     <para>
       Several environment variables are useful to pass to set before