diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index f75325d..0cabc96 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1842,7 +1842,11 @@ dnl in LLVM_LIBS.
 
 if test "x$MESA_LLVM" != x0; then
 
-    LLVM_LIBS="`$LLVM_CONFIG --libs ${LLVM_COMPONENTS}`"
+    if test $LLVM_VERSION_MAJOR -eq 3 -a $LLVM_VERSION_MINOR -ge 5; then
+        LLVM_LIBS="`$LLVM_CONFIG --libs --system-libs ${LLVM_COMPONENTS}`"
+    else
+        LLVM_LIBS="`$LLVM_CONFIG --libs ${LLVM_COMPONENTS}`"
+    fi
 
     if test "x$with_llvm_shared_libs" = xyes; then
         dnl We can't use $LLVM_VERSION because it has 'svn' stripped out,