diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 000999302..6cc3a9eaa 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2003-06-19  David Shaw  <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>
+
+	* configure.ac: Include wsock32 in W32LIBS.  This is different
+	from NETLIBS so we don't need to force other platforms to pull in
+	the netlibs when they aren't actually needed.
+
 2003-06-19  Werner Koch  <wk@gnupg.org>
 
         Released 1.2.3rc1.
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 1b04ed9a2..604071e6a 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -855,13 +855,15 @@ GNUPG_CHECK_GNUMAKE
 # mysterious reasons - the final link step should bail out. 
 case "${target}" in
     *-*-mingw32*)
-        NETLIBS="$NETLIBS -lwsock32"
+dnl      NETLIBS="$NETLIBS -lwsock32"
+	W32LIBS="-lwsock32"
         ;;
     *)
        ;;
 esac
 
 AC_SUBST(NETLIBS)
+AC_SUBST(W32LIBS)
 
 if test "$GCC" = yes; then
     if test "$USE_MAINTAINER_MODE" = "yes"; then