diff --git a/deps/blas.mk b/deps/blas.mk
index 55216c84ee112..3b3200bd17418 100644
--- a/deps/blas.mk
+++ b/deps/blas.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ OPENBLAS_GIT_URL := git://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS.git
 OPENBLAS_TAR_URL = https://api.github.com/repos/xianyi/OpenBLAS/tarball/$1
 $(eval $(call git-external,openblas,OPENBLAS,,,$(BUILDDIR)))
 
-OPENBLAS_BUILD_OPTS := CC="$(CC)" FC="$(FC)" RANLIB="$(RANLIB)" TARGET=$(OPENBLAS_TARGET_ARCH) BINARY=$(BINARY)
+OPENBLAS_BUILD_OPTS := CC="$(CC)" FC="$(FC)" LD="$(LD)" RANLIB="$(RANLIB)" TARGET=$(OPENBLAS_TARGET_ARCH) BINARY=$(BINARY)
 
 # Thread support
 ifeq ($(OPENBLAS_USE_THREAD), 1)
diff --git a/deps/llvm.mk b/deps/llvm.mk
index 5ac5ab438f51a..e008093fc0b5e 100644
--- a/deps/llvm.mk
+++ b/deps/llvm.mk
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ LLVM_FLAGS += --disable-bindings --disable-docs --disable-libedit --disable-term
 # LLVM has weird install prefixes (see llvm-$(LLVM_VER)/build_$(LLVM_BUILDTYPE)/Makefile.config for the full list)
 # We map them here to the "normal" ones, which means just prefixing "PROJ_" to the variable name.
 LLVM_MFLAGS := PROJ_libdir=$(build_libdir) PROJ_bindir=$(build_depsbindir) PROJ_includedir=$(build_includedir)
+LLVM_MFLAGS += LD="$(LD)"
 ifeq ($(LLVM_ASSERTIONS), 1)
 LLVM_FLAGS += --enable-assertions
 LLVM_CMAKE += -DLLVM_ENABLE_ASSERTIONS:BOOL=ON
diff --git a/deps/tools/common.mk b/deps/tools/common.mk
index df491b256c124..76c000f904665 100644
--- a/deps/tools/common.mk
+++ b/deps/tools/common.mk
@@ -8,8 +8,10 @@ ifeq ($(OS),WINNT)
 ifneq ($(USEMSVC), 1)
 CONFIGURE_COMMON += LDFLAGS="$(LDFLAGS) -Wl,--stack,8388608"
 endif
+else
+CONFIGURE_COMMON += LDFLAGS="$(LDFLAGS)"
 endif
-CONFIGURE_COMMON += F77="$(FC)" CC="$(CC)" CXX="$(CXX)"
+CONFIGURE_COMMON += F77="$(FC)" CC="$(CC)" CXX="$(CXX)" LD="$(LD)"
 
 CMAKE_CC_ARG := $(CC_ARG)
 CMAKE_CXX_ARG := $(CXX_ARG)
@@ -29,6 +31,7 @@ CMAKE_COMMON += -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER="$(CXX_BASE)"
 ifneq ($(strip $(CMAKE_CXX_ARG)),)
 CMAKE_COMMON += -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ARG1="$(CMAKE_CXX_ARG)"
 endif
+CMAKE_COMMON += -DCMAKE_LINKER="$(LD)"
 
 ifeq ($(OS),WINNT)
 CMAKE_COMMON += -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME=Windows