diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index a192c84f9..9d96992d6 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2005-10-04  Adam Jackson  <ajax@freedesktop.org>
+
+	* configure.ac:
+	Bug #4038: Unbreak the SYSVIPC check for cross builds. (Detlef Vollman)
+
 2005-10-04  Aaron Plattner  <aplattner@nvidia.com>
 
 	* hw/xfree86/loader/Makefile.am:
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 3525db3a8..d970e008e 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ AM_CONDITIONAL(FREEBSD_KLDLOAD, [test "x$ac_cv_sys_linker_h" == xyes])
 
 AC_CACHE_CHECK([for SYSV IPC],
 		ac_cv_sysv_ipc,
-		[AC_TRY_RUN([
+		[AC_TRY_LINK([
 #include <sys/shm.h>
 int main () { 
     int id;