diff --git a/m4/shout.m4 b/m4/shout.m4
index 37cd563..c4f6120 100644
--- a/m4/shout.m4
+++ b/m4/shout.m4
@@ -51,7 +51,8 @@ dnl XXX - Up until and including speex-1.2beta1, '-lm' has been missing from
 dnl       --libs in speex.pc, even though Speex (still) depends on it. This is
 dnl       a problem for Solaris' linker and at least some static archs using
 dnl       GNU ld. '-lm' now comes from the libshout's libvorbis dependency and
-dnl       is in the wrong place.
+dnl       is in the wrong place, if libshout was built with Speex support. Just
+dnl       move libm to the end for now.
 xt_shout_TEMP="`echo $SHOUT_LIBS | sed -e 's,-lm,,g'`"
 SHOUT_LIBS="$xt_shout_TEMP -lm"