diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 81e9889..0d3af1f 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -4843,7 +4843,7 @@ AM_CXXFLAGS="-g -Wall -Wextra $fail_on_warning -Wno-unknown-pragmas -std=c++11 -
 ##AC_SUBST(CXXFLAGS, "-O3")
 ##AC_SUBST(CFLAGS, "-O3")
 ##AC_SUBST(CPPFLAGS, "$CPPFLAGS $boost_include")
-LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -pthread -std=c++11 -lbz2 -llzma"
+LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -pthread -std=c++11"
 
 
 # We always need to specify to link to certain libraries
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index ec6e01f..90d3a79 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ AC_SUBST(AM_CXXFLAGS, "-g -Wall -Wextra $fail_on_warning -Wno-unknown-pragmas -s
 ##AC_SUBST(CXXFLAGS, "-O3")
 ##AC_SUBST(CFLAGS, "-O3")
 ##AC_SUBST(CPPFLAGS, "$CPPFLAGS $boost_include")
-AC_SUBST(LDFLAGS, "$LDFLAGS -pthread -std=c++11 -lbz2 -llzma")
+AC_SUBST(LDFLAGS, "$LDFLAGS -pthread -std=c++11")
 
 # We always need to specify to link to certain libraries
 ##AC_SUBST(LIBS, "$LIBS") # libboost_regex.a libboost_filesystem.a libboost_system.a")
diff --git a/src/svaba/Makefile.am b/src/svaba/Makefile.am
index cbdc8ff..8a12f79 100644
--- a/src/svaba/Makefile.am
+++ b/src/svaba/Makefile.am
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ svaba_LDADD = \
 	$(top_builddir)/SeqLib/src/libseqlib.a \
 	$(top_builddir)/SeqLib/bwa/libbwa.a \
 	$(top_builddir)/SeqLib/htslib/libhts.a \
-	$(top_builddir)/SeqLib/fermi-lite/libfml.a
+	$(top_builddir)/SeqLib/fermi-lite/libfml.a \
+	-llzma -lbz2 -lz
 
 ##svaba_LDFLAGS = -pthread -std=c++11
 
diff --git a/src/svaba/Makefile.in b/src/svaba/Makefile.in
index fddb7ea..52ab41e 100644
--- a/src/svaba/Makefile.in
+++ b/src/svaba/Makefile.in
@@ -318,7 +318,8 @@ svaba_LDADD = \
 	$(top_builddir)/SeqLib/src/libseqlib.a \
 	$(top_builddir)/SeqLib/bwa/libbwa.a \
 	$(top_builddir)/SeqLib/htslib/libhts.a \
-	$(top_builddir)/SeqLib/fermi-lite/libfml.a
+	$(top_builddir)/SeqLib/fermi-lite/libfml.a \
+	-llzma -lbz2 -lz
 
 svaba_SOURCES = run_svaba.cpp BreakPoint.cpp AlignedContig.cpp AlignmentFragment.cpp \
 		DiscordantCluster.cpp DBSnpFilter.cpp PONFilter.cpp \