diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 231f1e1c58..6edc02da91 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ if test "x$asan_enabled" = "xtrue"; then
     CFLAGS_ASAN+=" -Wno-maybe-uninitialized"
     AC_SUBST(CFLAGS_ASAN)
 
-    LDFLAGS_ASAN+=" -lasan"
+    LDFLAGS_ASAN+=" -fsanitize=address"
     AC_SUBST(LDFLAGS_ASAN)
 fi