diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index 2824fadd2ed..a542d718337 100644
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 Thu May 19 11:37:11 1994  Ian Lance Taylor  (ian@tweedledumb.cygnus.com)
 
+	* elf32-target.h, elf64-target.h: Change ar_max_namelen value from
+	15 to 14 to match SVR4 ar.
+
 	Add support for ELF shared libraries.  Loosely based on work by
 	Eric Youngdale <ericy@cais.com>.
 	* libelf.h (struct elf_backend_data): Add new fields for dynamic
diff --git a/bfd/elf32-target.h b/bfd/elf32-target.h
index e1a64054a33..ae318767b7e 100644
--- a/bfd/elf32-target.h
+++ b/bfd/elf32-target.h
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ bfd_target TARGET_BIG_SYM =
      FIXME:  this really has nothing to do with ELF, this is a characteristic
      of the archiver and should be independently tunable.  This value is
      a WAG (wild a** guess) */
-  15,
+  14,
 
   /* align_power_min: minimum alignment restriction for any section
      FIXME:  this value may be target machine dependent */
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ bfd_target TARGET_LITTLE_SYM =
      FIXME:  this really has nothing to do with ELF, this is a characteristic
      of the archiver and should be independently tunable.  This value is
      a WAG (wild a** guess) */
-  15,
+  14,
 
   /* align_power_min: minimum alignment restriction for any section
      FIXME:  this value may be target machine dependent */
diff --git a/bfd/elf64-target.h b/bfd/elf64-target.h
index 8b7f5d15324..4730386968d 100644
--- a/bfd/elf64-target.h
+++ b/bfd/elf64-target.h
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ bfd_target TARGET_BIG_SYM =
      FIXME:  this really has nothing to do with ELF, this is a characteristic
      of the archiver and should be independently tunable.  This value is
      a WAG (wild a** guess) */
-  15,
+  14,
 
   /* align_power_min: minimum alignment restriction for any section
      FIXME:  this value may be target machine dependent */
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ bfd_target TARGET_LITTLE_SYM =
      FIXME:  this really has nothing to do with ELF, this is a characteristic
      of the archiver and should be independently tunable.  This value is
      a WAG (wild a** guess) */
-  15,
+  14,
 
   /* align_power_min: minimum alignment restriction for any section
      FIXME:  this value may be target machine dependent */