diff --git a/pym/portage/util/_ctypes.py b/pym/portage/util/_ctypes.py
index f419b19..13ab6e5 100644
--- a/pym/portage/util/_ctypes.py
+++ b/pym/portage/util/_ctypes.py
@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
 # Copyright 2012 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
+from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function
+
 try:
 	import ctypes
 	import ctypes.util
+	import _ctypes
 except ImportError:
 	ctypes = None
 else:
@@ -12,6 +15,10 @@ else:
 	except AttributeError:
 		ctypes = None
 
+import traceback
+
+from portage.proxy.objectproxy import ObjectProxy
+
 _library_names = {}
 
 def find_library(name):
@@ -40,6 +47,36 @@ def LoadLibrary(name):
 	handle = None
 
 	if ctypes is not None:
-		handle = ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary(name)
+		handle = _LibraryHandleProxy(ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary(name))
 
 	return handle
+
+class _LibraryHandleProxy(ObjectProxy):
+
+	__slots__ = ('_target',)
+
+	def __init__(self, target):
+		object.__setattr__(self, '_target', target)
+
+	def _get_target(self):
+		return object.__getattribute__(self, '_target')
+
+	def __del__(self):
+		"""
+		Calls _ctypes.dlclose() for the proxied CDLL instance, since it
+		doesn't happen automatically (see http://bugs.python.org/issue14597).
+		"""
+		try:
+			_handle = object.__getattribute__(self, '_target')._handle
+			object.__delattr__(self, '_target')
+			_ctypes.dlclose(_handle)
+		except (SystemExit, KeyboardInterrupt):
+			raise
+		except Exception:
+			# Make some noise if this breaks in a future python version.
+			traceback.print_exc()
+		print("_LibraryHandleProxy __del__", _handle)
+
+		base_destructor = getattr(ObjectProxy, '__del__', None)
+		if base_destructor is not None:
+			base_destructor(self)