diff --git a/Source/cmUnixMakefileGenerator.cxx b/Source/cmUnixMakefileGenerator.cxx
index e1d1055cbb..dc80bf816f 100644
--- a/Source/cmUnixMakefileGenerator.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmUnixMakefileGenerator.cxx
@@ -426,6 +426,7 @@ void cmUnixMakefileGenerator::OutputLinkLibraries(std::ostream& fout,
           }
         }
       cmRegularExpression libname("lib(.*)\\.(.*)");
+      cmRegularExpression libname_noprefix("(.*)\\.(.*)");
       if(libname.find(file))
         {
         librariesLinked += "-l";
@@ -433,6 +434,13 @@ void cmUnixMakefileGenerator::OutputLinkLibraries(std::ostream& fout,
 	librariesLinked += file;
         librariesLinked += " ";
         }
+      else if(libname_noprefix.find(file))
+        {
+        librariesLinked += "-l";
+        file = libname_noprefix.match(1);
+	librariesLinked += file;
+        librariesLinked += " ";
+        }
       }
     // not a full path, so add -l name
     else