diff --git a/m4/ChangeLog b/m4/ChangeLog
index f99f6436a..28f1c3105 100644
--- a/m4/ChangeLog
+++ b/m4/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2005-02-28  David Shaw  <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>
+
+	* libcurl.m4: Use $LIBS instead of $LDFLAGS.  This should help
+	build problems on Mingw32.
+
 2005-02-03  David Shaw  <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>
 
 	* libcurl.m4: More comments.
diff --git a/m4/libcurl.m4 b/m4/libcurl.m4
index c09084378..edf12a8c5 100644
--- a/m4/libcurl.m4
+++ b/m4/libcurl.m4
@@ -132,8 +132,8 @@ AC_DEFUN([LIBCURL_CHECK_CONFIG],
            [
            _libcurl_save_cppflags=$CPPFLAGS
            CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS $LIBCURL_CPPFLAGS"
-           _libcurl_save_ldflags=$LDFLAGS
-           LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS $LIBCURL"
+           _libcurl_save_libs=$LIBS
+           LIBS="$LIBS $LIBCURL"
 
            AC_LINK_IFELSE(AC_LANG_PROGRAM([#include <curl/curl.h>],[
 /* Try and use a few common options to force a failure if we are
@@ -149,9 +149,9 @@ x=CURLOPT_VERBOSE;
 ]),libcurl_cv_lib_curl_usable=yes,libcurl_cv_lib_curl_usable=no)
 
            CPPFLAGS=$_libcurl_save_cppflags
-           LDFLAGS=$_libcurl_save_ldflags
+           LIBS=$_libcurl_save_libs
            unset _libcurl_save_cppflags
-           unset _libcurl_save_ldflags
+           unset _libcurl_save_libs
            ])
 
         if test $libcurl_cv_lib_curl_usable = yes ; then