diff --git a/acinclude.m4 b/acinclude.m4
index 340f79f191e..d8a9ce9a3cb 100644
--- a/acinclude.m4
+++ b/acinclude.m4
@@ -1658,7 +1658,9 @@ AC_DEFUN([PHP_SETUP_OPENSSL],[
     ],[
       -L$OPENSSL_LIBDIR
     ])
-  
+
+    old_LIBS=$LIBS
+    LIBS="$LIBS -lcrypto"
     PHP_CHECK_LIBRARY(ssl, SSL_CTX_set_ssl_version, [
       PHP_ADD_LIBRARY(ssl,,$1)
       found_openssl=yes
@@ -1667,6 +1669,7 @@ AC_DEFUN([PHP_SETUP_OPENSSL],[
     ],[
       -L$OPENSSL_LIBDIR
     ])
+    LIBS=$old_LIBS
   fi
 
   dnl For apache 1.3.x static build