diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index a87c79241..a63dc381e 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -448,18 +448,19 @@ ldb: tools/ldb.o $(LIBOBJECTS)
 
 JNI_NATIVE_SOURCES = ./java/rocksjni/*.cc
 JAVA_INCLUDE = -I$(JAVA_HOME)/include/ -I$(JAVA_HOME)/include/linux
-ROCKSDBJNILIB = ./java/librocksdbjni.so
+ROCKSDBJNILIB = librocksdbjni.so
 
 ifeq ($(PLATFORM), OS_MACOSX)
-ROCKSDBJNILIB = ./java/librocksdbjni.jnilib
+ROCKSDBJNILIB = librocksdbjni.jnilib
 JAVA_INCLUDE = -I/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Headers/
 endif
 
 rocksdbjava:
 	OPT="-fPIC -DNDEBUG -O2" $(MAKE) $(LIBRARY) -j32
 	cd java;$(MAKE) java;
-	rm -f $(ROCKSDBJNILIB)
-	$(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) -I./java/. $(JAVA_INCLUDE) -shared -fPIC -o $(ROCKSDBJNILIB) $(JNI_NATIVE_SOURCES) $(LIBOBJECTS) $(LDFLAGS) $(COVERAGEFLAGS)
+	rm -f ./java/$(ROCKSDBJNILIB)
+	$(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) -I./java/. $(JAVA_INCLUDE) -shared -fPIC -o ./java/$(ROCKSDBJNILIB) $(JNI_NATIVE_SOURCES) $(LIBOBJECTS) $(JAVA_LDFLAGS) $(COVERAGEFLAGS)
+	cd java;jar -cf $(ROCKSDB_JAR) org/rocksdb/*.class org/rocksdb/util/*.class HISTORY*.md $(ROCKSDBJNILIB)
 
 jclean:
 	cd java;$(MAKE) clean;
diff --git a/build_tools/build_detect_platform b/build_tools/build_detect_platform
index 6ea1a63d0..3389d2851 100755
--- a/build_tools/build_detect_platform
+++ b/build_tools/build_detect_platform
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 #   CC                          C Compiler path
 #   CXX                         C++ Compiler path
 #   PLATFORM_LDFLAGS            Linker flags
+#   JAVA_LDFLAGS                Linker flags for RocksDBJava
 #   PLATFORM_SHARED_EXT         Extension for shared libraries
 #   PLATFORM_SHARED_LDFLAGS     Flags for building shared library
 #   PLATFORM_SHARED_CFLAGS      Flags for compiling objects for shared library
@@ -157,6 +158,8 @@ case "$TARGET_OS" in
         exit 1
 esac
 
+JAVA_LDFLAGS="$PLATFORM_LDFLAGS"
+
 if test -z "$DO_NOT_RUN_BUILD_DETECT_VERSION"; then
   "$PWD/build_tools/build_detect_version"
 fi
@@ -215,6 +218,7 @@ EOF
     if [ "$?" = 0 ]; then
         COMMON_FLAGS="$COMMON_FLAGS -DSNAPPY"
         PLATFORM_LDFLAGS="$PLATFORM_LDFLAGS -lsnappy"
+        JAVA_LDFLAGS="$JAVA_LDFLAGS -lsnappy"
     fi
 
 
@@ -250,6 +254,7 @@ EOF
     if [ "$?" = 0 ]; then
         COMMON_FLAGS="$COMMON_FLAGS -DZLIB"
         PLATFORM_LDFLAGS="$PLATFORM_LDFLAGS -lz"
+        JAVA_LDFLAGS="$JAVA_LDFLAGS -lz"
     fi
 
     # Test whether bzip library is installed
@@ -260,6 +265,7 @@ EOF
     if [ "$?" = 0 ]; then
         COMMON_FLAGS="$COMMON_FLAGS -DBZIP2"
         PLATFORM_LDFLAGS="$PLATFORM_LDFLAGS -lbz2"
+        JAVA_LDFLAGS="$JAVA_LDFLAGS -lbz2"
     fi
 
     # Test whether lz4 library is installed
@@ -271,6 +277,7 @@ EOF
     if [ "$?" = 0 ]; then
         COMMON_FLAGS="$COMMON_FLAGS -DLZ4"
         PLATFORM_LDFLAGS="$PLATFORM_LDFLAGS -llz4"
+        JAVA_LDFLAGS="$JAVA_LDFLAGS -llz4"
     fi
 
     # Test whether numa is available
@@ -282,6 +289,7 @@ EOF
     if [ "$?" = 0 ]; then
         COMMON_FLAGS="$COMMON_FLAGS -DNUMA"
         PLATFORM_LDFLAGS="$PLATFORM_LDFLAGS -lnuma"
+        JAVA_LDFLAGS="$JAVA_LDFLAGS -lnuma"
     fi
 
     # Test whether tcmalloc is available
@@ -290,6 +298,7 @@ EOF
 EOF
     if [ "$?" = 0 ]; then
         PLATFORM_LDFLAGS="$PLATFORM_LDFLAGS -ltcmalloc"
+        JAVA_LDFLAGS="$JAVA_LDFLAGS -ltcmalloc"
     fi
 fi
 
@@ -306,6 +315,7 @@ if test "$USE_HDFS"; then
   HDFS_LDFLAGS="$HDFS_LDFLAGS -ldl -lverify -ljava -ljvm"
   COMMON_FLAGS="$COMMON_FLAGS $HDFS_CCFLAGS"
   PLATFORM_LDFLAGS="$PLATFORM_LDFLAGS $HDFS_LDFLAGS"
+  JAVA_LDFLAGS="$JAVA_LDFLAGS $HDFS_LDFLAGS"
 fi
 
 # if Intel SSE instruction set is supported, set USE_SSE=" -msse -msse4.2 "
@@ -320,6 +330,7 @@ echo "CC=$CC" >> "$OUTPUT"
 echo "CXX=$CXX" >> "$OUTPUT"
 echo "PLATFORM=$PLATFORM" >> "$OUTPUT"
 echo "PLATFORM_LDFLAGS=$PLATFORM_LDFLAGS" >> "$OUTPUT"
+echo "JAVA_LDFLAGS=$JAVA_LDFLAGS" >> "$OUTPUT"
 echo "VALGRIND_VER=$VALGRIND_VER" >> "$OUTPUT"
 echo "PLATFORM_CCFLAGS=$PLATFORM_CCFLAGS" >> "$OUTPUT"
 echo "PLATFORM_CXXFLAGS=$PLATFORM_CXXFLAGS" >> "$OUTPUT"
diff --git a/java/Makefile b/java/Makefile
index 287fe1021..238ddd93e 100644
--- a/java/Makefile
+++ b/java/Makefile
@@ -3,11 +3,6 @@ NATIVE_JAVA_CLASSES = org.rocksdb.RocksDB org.rocksdb.Options org.rocksdb.WriteB
 NATIVE_INCLUDE = ./include
 ROCKSDB_JAR = rocksdbjni.jar
 
-ROCKSDBJNILIB = ./librocksdbjni.so
-ifeq ($(PLATFORM), OS_MACOSX)
-  ROCKSDBJNILIB = ./librocksdbjni.jnilib
-endif
-
 clean:
 	-find . -name "*.class" -exec rm {} \;
 	-find . -name "hs*.log" -exec rm {} \;
@@ -16,7 +11,6 @@ clean:
 java:
 	javac org/rocksdb/util/*.java org/rocksdb/*.java
 	@cp ../HISTORY.md ./HISTORY-CPP.md
-	jar -cf $(ROCKSDB_JAR) org/rocksdb/*.class org/rocksdb/util/*.class HISTORY*.md $(ROCKSDBJNILIB)
 	@rm -f ./HISTORY-CPP.md
 	javah -d $(NATIVE_INCLUDE) -jni $(NATIVE_JAVA_CLASSES)