diff --git a/ld/ChangeLog b/ld/ChangeLog
index 75d04d92861..02d9e4234d7 100644
--- a/ld/ChangeLog
+++ b/ld/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2002-12-17  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
+
+	* emultempl/pe.em (longopts): Duplicate entry for --compact-implib
+	so that it is not confused with -c.
+
 2002-12-13  Ralf Habacker  <Ralf.Habacker@freenet.de>
             Charles Wilson  <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>
 
diff --git a/ld/emultempl/pe.em b/ld/emultempl/pe.em
index d350ee8bfcb..061401f26fb 100644
--- a/ld/emultempl/pe.em
+++ b/ld/emultempl/pe.em
@@ -260,6 +260,9 @@ static struct option longopts[] = {
   {"disable-stdcall-fixup", no_argument, NULL, OPTION_DISABLE_STDCALL_FIXUP},
   {"out-implib", required_argument, NULL, OPTION_IMPLIB_FILENAME},
   {"warn-duplicate-exports", no_argument, NULL, OPTION_WARN_DUPLICATE_EXPORTS},
+  /* getopt() allows abbreviations, so we do this to stop it from
+     treating -c as an abbreviation for these --compat-implib.  */
+  {"compat-implib", no_argument, NULL, OPTION_IMP_COMPAT},
   {"compat-implib", no_argument, NULL, OPTION_IMP_COMPAT},
   {"enable-auto-image-base", no_argument, NULL, OPTION_ENABLE_AUTO_IMAGE_BASE},
   {"disable-auto-image-base", no_argument, NULL, OPTION_DISABLE_AUTO_IMAGE_BASE},