diff --git a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
index 341d13e39..dd2dd1695 100644
--- a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
+++ b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 
  - Alejandro Mery: fixed ncurses: +x *.so and libcurses.a
                    adde runit (sysvinit replacement)
+                   libtool and /lib -> /usr/lib
  - Stefan Paletta: updated python (2.3) and other stefanp repository updates
                    openhbci/gnucash updates and fixes
  - Jan Veninga: sparc kernel-disable.list
diff --git a/package/base/libtool/statics_at_usr_lib.patch b/package/base/libtool/statics_at_usr_lib.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8fcc67eca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/base/libtool/statics_at_usr_lib.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+# --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
+# 
+# This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
+# Please add additional copyright information _after_ the line containing
+# the ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END tag. Otherwise it might get removed by
+# the ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch script. Do not edit this copyright text!
+# 
+# ROCK Linux: rock-src/package/base/libtool/statics_at_usr_lib.patch
+# ROCK Linux is Copyright (C) 1998 - 2003 Clifford Wolf
+# 
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version. A copy of the GNU General Public
+# License can be found at Documentation/COPYING.
+# 
+# Many people helped and are helping developing ROCK Linux. Please
+# have a look at http://www.rocklinux.org/ and the Documentation/TEAM
+# file for details.
+# 
+# --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
+
+if destdir is /lib, static lib could had been moved to /usr/lib by 
+INSTALL_WRAPPER
+
+ - Alejandro
+--- ./ltmain.sh.orig	2003-09-19 12:43:07.000000000 -0400
++++ ./ltmain.sh	2003-09-19 12:44:25.000000000 -0400
+@@ -5630,6 +5630,10 @@
+       $show "$install_prog $file $oldlib"
+       $run eval "$install_prog \$file \$oldlib" || exit $?
+ 
++      if [ "$destdir" == "/lib" -a ! -f "$oldlib" ]; then
++        oldlib="/usr/lib/$name"
++      fi
++
+       if test -n "$stripme" && test -n "$striplib"; then
+ 	$show "$old_striplib $oldlib"
+ 	$run eval "$old_striplib $oldlib" || exit $?
+--- ./libltdl/ltmain.sh.orig	2003-09-19 12:43:07.000000000 -0400
++++ ./libltdl/ltmain.sh	2003-09-19 12:44:25.000000000 -0400
+@@ -5630,6 +5630,10 @@
+       $show "$install_prog $file $oldlib"
+       $run eval "$install_prog \$file \$oldlib" || exit $?
+ 
++      if [ "$destdir" == "/lib" -a ! -f "$oldlib" ]; then
++        oldlib="/usr/lib/$name"
++      fi
++
+       if test -n "$stripme" && test -n "$striplib"; then
+ 	$show "$old_striplib $oldlib"
+ 	$run eval "$old_striplib $oldlib" || exit $?