diff --git a/src/gallium/drivers/radeon/radeon_llvm_emit.cpp b/src/gallium/drivers/radeon/radeon_llvm_emit.cpp
index 21661a0..2063806 100644
--- a/src/gallium/drivers/radeon/radeon_llvm_emit.cpp
+++ b/src/gallium/drivers/radeon/radeon_llvm_emit.cpp
@@ -89,13 +89,17 @@ radeon_llvm_compile(LLVMModuleRef M, unsigned char ** bytes,
 
    Triple AMDGPUTriple(sys::getDefaultTargetTriple());
 
+   static bool init = false;
+   if (!init) {
    LLVMInitializeAMDGPUTargetInfo();
    LLVMInitializeAMDGPUTarget();
    LLVMInitializeAMDGPUTargetMC();
    LLVMInitializeAMDGPUAsmPrinter();
+   init = true;
+   }
 
    std::string err;
-   const Target * AMDGPUTarget = TargetRegistry::lookupTarget("r600", err);
+   static const Target * AMDGPUTarget = TargetRegistry::lookupTarget("r600", err);
    if(!AMDGPUTarget) {
       fprintf(stderr, "Can't find target: %s\n", err.c_str());
       return 1;