diff -Naur kerneloops-0.12/Makefile kerneloops-0.12.tpg/Makefile
--- kerneloops-0.12/Makefile	2008-04-09 22:02:24.000000000 +0000
+++ kerneloops-0.12.tpg/Makefile	2009-02-16 17:59:50.000000000 +0000
@@ -10,16 +10,18 @@
 MANDIR=/usr/share/man/man8
 CC?=gcc
 
-CFLAGS := -O2 -g -fstack-protector -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wall -W -Wstrict-prototypes -Wundef -fno-common -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wdeclaration-after-statement
+CFLAGS += -O2 -g -fstack-protector -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wall -W -Wstrict-prototypes -Wundef -fno-common -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wdeclaration-after-statement
 
-MY_CFLAGS := `pkg-config --cflags libnotify gtk+-2.0`
+LDFLAGS +=
+
+MY_CFLAGS = `pkg-config --cflags libnotify gtk+-2.0`
 #
 # pkg-config tends to make programs pull in a ton of libraries, not all 
 # are needed. -Wl,--as-needed tells the linker to just drop unused ones,
 # and that makes the applet load faster and use less memory.
 #
-LDF_A := -Wl,--as-needed `pkg-config --libs libnotify gtk+-2.0`
-LDF_D := -Wl,--as-needed `pkg-config --libs glib-2.0 dbus-glib-1` `curl-config --libs` -Wl,"-z relro" -Wl,"-z now" 
+LDF_A = $(LDFLAGS) -Wl,--as-needed `pkg-config --libs libnotify gtk+-2.0`
+LDF_D = $(LDFLAGS) -Wl,--as-needed `pkg-config --libs glib-2.0 dbus-glib-1` `curl-config --libs` -Wl,"-z relro" -Wl,"-z now" 
 
 all:	kerneloops kerneloops-applet kerneloops.8.gz