diff -ur a/guicast/Makefile.am b/guicast/Makefile.am
--- a/guicast/Makefile.am	2011-12-23 03:22:48.000000000 +0100
+++ b/guicast/Makefile.am	2012-05-07 00:36:18.960761836 +0200
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@
 
 # custom rule that disregards any fancy flags that the user might have set
 bootstrap.$(OBJEXT): bootstrap.c
-	$(CC) $(BOOTSTRAP_CFLAGS) -c $<
+	$(CC) $(BOOTSTRAP_CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -c $<
 
 EXTRA_DIST = images pngtoh.c