diff --git a/m4/sac-openssl.m4 b/m4/sac-openssl.m4
index 465782b87b3c13bd5ecb4e1c80efedfe0acbe5b6..3abbe7880454f0ca759af624e121646639a7724b 100644
--- a/m4/sac-openssl.m4
+++ b/m4/sac-openssl.m4
@@ -14,8 +14,9 @@ if test "$with_openssl" = no  ;then
 else
 
   if test "$with_openssl" = "pkg-config" ; then 
-    PKG_CHECK_MODULES(openssl, openssl, [
-	HAVE_TLS=1 HAVE_OPENSSL=1], [HAVE_OPENSSL=0])
+    PKG_CHECK_MODULES(openssl, openssl,
+	[HAVE_TLS=1 HAVE_OPENSSL=1 LIBS="$openssl_LIBS $LIBS"],
+	[HAVE_OPENSSL=0])
   fi
 
   if test $HAVE_OPENSSL = 1 ; then
diff --git a/rules/sofia.am b/rules/sofia.am
index 8a2eaf0bbd14114d0b9b214936e3c901d14c1b1b..059dfa49dca986f6df2807f952e02bf50ece66ef 100644
--- a/rules/sofia.am
+++ b/rules/sofia.am
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 # common Makefile targets for libsofia-sip-ua(-glib) modules
 # ----------------------------------------------------------
 
-AM_CFLAGS = $(CWFLAG) $(SOFIA_COVERAGE) $(SOFIA_CFLAGS) $(OPENSSL_CFLAGS)
-AM_LIBS =   $(OPENSSL_LIBS)
+AM_CFLAGS = $(CWFLAG) $(SOFIA_COVERAGE) $(SOFIA_CFLAGS) $(openssl_CFLAGS)
 
 # Use with --enable-ndebug
 if NDEBUG