diff --git a/dev-lang/mercury/mercury-20.01.2.ebuild b/dev-lang/mercury/mercury-20.01.2.ebuild
index dc94963281efe..f8f02f5ba6e41 100644
--- a/dev-lang/mercury/mercury-20.01.2.ebuild
+++ b/dev-lang/mercury/mercury-20.01.2.ebuild
@@ -63,7 +63,8 @@ src_configure() {
 
 src_compile() {
 	# Prepare mmake flags
-	echo "EXTRA_CFLAGS  = ${CFLAGS}"  >> Mmake.params
+	echo "EXTRA_CFLAGS = ${CFLAGS}"  >> Mmake.params
+	echo "EXTRA_LDFLAGS = ${LDFLAGS}" >> Mmake.params
 	echo "EXTRA_LD_LIBFLAGS = ${LDFLAGS}" >> Mmake.params
 	echo "EXTRA_MLFLAGS = --no-strip" >> Mmake.params