--- configure.orig	Sun Apr 30 20:32:29 2000
+++ configure	Sun Apr 30 20:33:08 2000
@@ -2321,7 +2321,7 @@
 #define $ac_tr_lib 1
 EOF
 
-  LIBS="-lpth $LIBS"
+  LIBS="-L$prefix/lib -lpth $LIBS"
 
 else
   echo "$ac_t""no" 1>&6