diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index bbf236523f3..ae273a2294f 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -984,7 +984,6 @@ case $php_build_target in
 esac
 
 EXTRA_LIBS="$EXTRA_LIBS $DLIBS $LIBS"
-EXTRA_LDFLAGS="$EXTRA_LDFLAGS $LDFLAGS"
 
 dnl this has to be here to prevent the openssl crypt() from
 dnl overriding the system provided crypt().