diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 8b487450..6993e74e 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Fri Jul  9 02:51:38 PDT 2004 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
+
+	* python/libxsl.py: fixes Python on 64bits box problem.
+
 Tue Jul  6 18:43:37 CEST 2004 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
 
 	* libxslt.spec.in: better python dependancy Red hat bug #126364
diff --git a/python/libxsl.py b/python/libxsl.py
index 404b1dc3..56aa8f1c 100644
--- a/python/libxsl.py
+++ b/python/libxsl.py
@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ else:
 	     pass
 #            print "libxslt could not guess RTLD_GLOBAL and RTLD_NOW " + \
 #                  "on this platform: %s" % (osname)
+    except:
+	 RTLD_GLOBAL = -1
+	 RTLD_NOW = -1
 
     if RTLD_GLOBAL != -1 and RTLD_NOW != -1:
         try: