diff --git a/Makefile.target b/Makefile.target
index 2bd6d14..2636103 100644
--- a/Makefile.target
+++ b/Makefile.target
@@ -31,10 +31,6 @@
 endif
 STPFILES=
 
-ifndef CONFIG_HAIKU
-LIBS+=-lm
-endif
-
 config-target.h: config-target.h-timestamp
 config-target.h-timestamp: config-target.mak
 
@@ -119,7 +115,7 @@
 obj-$(CONFIG_HAVE_CORE_DUMP) += dump.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_NO_GET_MEMORY_MAPPING) += memory_mapping-stub.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_NO_CORE_DUMP) += dump-stub.o
-LIBS+=-lz
+LIBS+=$(libs_softmmu)
 
 # xen support
 obj-$(CONFIG_XEN) += xen-all.o xen-mapcache.o
@@ -149,6 +145,10 @@
 all-obj-y = $(obj-y)
 all-obj-y += $(addprefix ../, $(common-obj-y))
 
+ifndef CONFIG_HAIKU
+LIBS+=-lm
+endif
+
 ifdef QEMU_PROGW
 # The linker builds a windows executable. Make also a console executable.
 $(QEMU_PROGW): $(all-obj-y) ../libqemuutil.a ../libqemustub.a
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index c274c5f..01d2b12 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -1467,6 +1467,7 @@
             "Make sure to have the zlib libs and headers installed."
     fi
 fi
+libs_softmmu="$libs_softmmu -lz"
 
 ##########################################
 # libseccomp check
@@ -3607,6 +3608,7 @@
 echo "extra_cflags=$EXTRA_CFLAGS" >> $config_host_mak
 echo "extra_ldflags=$EXTRA_LDFLAGS" >> $config_host_mak
 echo "qemu_localedir=$qemu_localedir" >> $config_host_mak
+echo "libs_softmmu=$libs_softmmu" >> $config_host_mak
 
 echo "ARCH=$ARCH" >> $config_host_mak
 
@@ -4331,7 +4333,7 @@
 fi
 if test "$target_softmmu" = "yes" ; then
   echo "CONFIG_SOFTMMU=y" >> $config_target_mak
-  echo "LIBS+=$libs_softmmu $target_libs_softmmu" >> $config_target_mak
+  echo "LIBS+=$target_libs_softmmu" >> $config_target_mak
   case "$target_arch2" in
     i386|x86_64)
       echo "CONFIG_HAVE_CORE_DUMP=y" >> $config_target_mak