diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index b97e2bb283..3a979edb33 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Sun Mar  5 13:18:47 PST 2000 Manish Singh <yosh@gimp.org>
+
+	* gimp.m4: need GPlugInInfo struct for the link test too
+	(patch by Robert Krawitz <rlk@alum.mit.edu>)
+
 Sun Mar  5 03:25:33 CET 2000  Marc Lehmann <pcg@goof.com>
 
 	* app/plug_in.c: Remove the two gimp-perl specific hacks that
diff --git a/gimp.m4 b/gimp.m4
index fd0fe39fce..e4a6e5c974 100644
--- a/gimp.m4
+++ b/gimp.m4
@@ -134,6 +134,14 @@ int main ()
           AC_TRY_LINK([
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <libgimp/gimp.h>
+
+GPlugInInfo PLUG_IN_INFO =
+{
+  NULL,  /* init_proc */
+  NULL,  /* quit_proc */
+  NULL,  /* query_proc */
+  NULL   /* run_proc */
+};
 ],      [ return 0; ],
         [ echo "*** The test program compiled, but did not run. This usually means"
           echo "*** that the run-time linker is not finding GIMP or finding the wrong"