diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index ca2930b4df1..e4d705f56cb 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -285,6 +285,8 @@ Release 2.0.2-alpha - 2012-09-07
     HADOOP-8775. MR2 distcp permits non-positive value to -bandwidth option
     which causes job never to complete. (Sandy Ryza via atm)
 
+    HADOOP-8781. hadoop-config.sh should add JAVA_LIBRARY_PATH to LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (tucu)
+
   BREAKDOWN OF HDFS-3042 SUBTASKS
 
     HADOOP-8220. ZKFailoverController doesn't handle failure to become active
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop-config.sh b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop-config.sh
index b89c3d756ed..43cf5974849 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop-config.sh
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop-config.sh
@@ -243,6 +243,7 @@ HADOOP_OPTS="$HADOOP_OPTS -Dhadoop.id.str=$HADOOP_IDENT_STRING"
 HADOOP_OPTS="$HADOOP_OPTS -Dhadoop.root.logger=${HADOOP_ROOT_LOGGER:-INFO,console}"
 if [ "x$JAVA_LIBRARY_PATH" != "x" ]; then
   HADOOP_OPTS="$HADOOP_OPTS -Djava.library.path=$JAVA_LIBRARY_PATH"
+  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$JAVA_LIBRARY_PATH
 fi  
 HADOOP_OPTS="$HADOOP_OPTS -Dhadoop.policy.file=$HADOOP_POLICYFILE"