diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index f68602d..a4e24b3 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -140,8 +140,12 @@ dnl We don't need any special variable for this though, since the user
 dnl can give the proper place to find libltdl through the standard
 dnl variables like LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS.
 
+LTDL_INIT
+if test -n "$LTDL_LDFLAGS"; then
+    LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS $LTDL_LDFLAGS"
+fi
 AC_CHECK_HEADER([ltdl.h],
-    [AC_CHECK_LIB([ltdl], [lt_dladvise_init], [LIBLTDL=-lltdl], [LIBLTDL=])],
+    [AC_CHECK_LIB([ltdl], [lt_dladvise_init], [LIBLTDL="-lltdl $LTDL_LDFLAGS $lt_cv_dlopen_libs"], [LIBLTDL=])],
     [LIBLTDL=])
 
 AS_IF([test "x$LIBLTDL" = "x"],
diff --git a/libcanberra.pc.in b/libcanberra.pc.in
index 0a5c7a1..a6a989b 100644
--- a/libcanberra.pc.in
+++ b/libcanberra.pc.in
@@ -7,5 +7,6 @@ Name: libcanberra
 Description: Event Sound API
 Version: @PACKAGE_VERSION@
 Libs: -L${libdir} -lcanberra @PTHREAD_LIBS@
+Libs.private: @LIBLTDL@
 Cflags: -D_REENTRANT -I${includedir}
 Requires: