diff --git a/Makefile.system b/Makefile.system
index ac60eae5b..1d4ff6da1 100644
--- a/Makefile.system
+++ b/Makefile.system
@@ -1041,9 +1041,11 @@ FCOMMON_OPT += -frecursive
 # work around ABI problem with passing single-character arguments
 FCOMMON_OPT += -fno-optimize-sibling-calls
 #Don't include -lgfortran, when NO_LAPACK=1 or lsbcc
+ifneq ($(NOFORTRAN), 1)
 ifneq ($(NO_LAPACK), 1)
 EXTRALIB += -lgfortran
 endif
+endif
 ifdef NO_BINARY_MODE
 ifeq ($(ARCH), $(filter $(ARCH),mips64))
 ifdef BINARY64