diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index def7c4a6..6d34eba6 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2006-11-08 Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
+
+	* configure.ac: Preserve ${LDFLAGS} inherited from environment
+	for Win32 environments.
+
 2006-11-07 Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
 
 	* configure.ac: Don't pretend --enable-doc were the default.
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 83df5408..555f7d18 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ case $target in
         *-*-mingw32* | *-*-cygwin* | *-*-windows*)
 		WINDOWS_DIRS="windows"
 		CFLAGS="-mno-cygwin -DWIN32NATIVE"
-		LDFLAGS="-static"
+		LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS} -static"
 		;;
 esac
 AC_SUBST(WINDOWS_DIRS,$WINDOWS_DIRS)