diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 6ad4384..35abb49 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 0.8.1
 =====
+  26-Apr-2010:  - Clean building from distribuion TAR did fail if the host
+                  installed libltdl lib was used (and not the convenience lib)
   29-Mar-2010:  - fix: siproxd could crash when trying to rewrite a malformed
                   SIP message. (thank you, Lucas)
 
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index fc65056..5485280 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -19,7 +19,11 @@
 #
 
 
-SUBDIRS = libltdl src doc scripts contrib
+if use_convenience_ltdl
+   OPT_LTDL_DIR = libltdl
+endif
+
+SUBDIRS = $(OPT_LTDL_DIR) src doc scripts contrib
 INCLUDES = $(LTDLINCL)
 
 EXTRA_DIST = TODO RELNOTES siproxd.spec autogen.sh
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index a364b92..71a9507 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -47,6 +47,9 @@ dnl				--disable-shared to be set as well (plugins will
 dnl				be statically linked into siproxd)
 dnl	19-Feb-2010	tries	CVE-2009-3736: use libltdl on host if existing
 dnl				and fall back using convenienve libltdl (WARN)
+dnl	26-Apr-2010	tries	Fresh building from distribuion TAR did fail if
+dnl				the host-installed libltdl lib is used (and not the
+dnl				convenience lib)
 dnl
 dnl
 
@@ -108,6 +111,9 @@ AC_CHECK_LIB(ltdl, lt_dlopen, [
 
 if test "x$use_native_ltdl" = "xno"; then
    AC_LIBLTDL_CONVENIENCE
+   AM_CONDITIONAL(use_convenience_ltdl,true)
+else
+   AM_CONDITIONAL(use_convenience_ltdl,false)
 fi
 
 dnl