diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index afba3cb0d..70408cc83 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2008-10-20  Emmanuele Bassi  <ebassi@linux.intel.com>
+
+	* configure.ac: Use gmodule-no-export-2.0, not gmodule-2.0,
+	to avoid breaking the symbol hiding. (thanks to Ross Burton
+	and Laurent Bigonville)
+
 2008-10-20  Neil Roberts  <neil@linux.intel.com>
 
 	Bug 1043 - COGL calls glTexSubImage2D() with out-of-bounds
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 31a790a61..368c9a219 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -520,7 +520,7 @@ fi
 AC_SUBST(JSON_PREFIX)
 AM_CONDITIONAL(LOCAL_JSON_GLIB, test "x$have_json" = "xno")
 
-CLUTTER_REQUIRES="pangocairo >= 1.18 gobject-2.0 >= 2.14 gthread-2.0 gmodule-2.0 $BACKEND_PC_FILES $JSON_GLIB_PC"
+CLUTTER_REQUIRES="pangocairo >= 1.18 gobject-2.0 >= 2.14 gthread-2.0 gmodule-no-export-2.0 $BACKEND_PC_FILES $JSON_GLIB_PC"
 
 if test "x$imagebackend" = "xgdk-pixbuf"; then
         CLUTTER_REQUIRES="$CLUTTER_REQUIRES gdk-pixbuf-2.0"