diff -Nru alsa-utils-0.5.8/aclocal.m4 alsa-utils-0.5.8.new/aclocal.m4
--- alsa-utils-0.5.8/aclocal.m4	Mon Jun  5 21:18:01 2000
+++ alsa-utils-0.5.8.new/aclocal.m4	Tue Jul 18 16:22:26 2000
@@ -158,7 +158,6 @@
 
 dnl add the alsa library
 ALSA_LIBS="$ALSA_LIBS -lasound"
-LDFLAGS="$ALSA_LIBS"
 AC_MSG_RESULT($ALSA_LIBS)
 
 dnl Check for the presence of the library