diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 2a820b91d..0084c86e4 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -213,6 +213,9 @@ AC_SUBST([VERSIONING_LDFLAGS])
 # The -z now syntax is lifted from Sun's linker and works with GNU's too, other linkers might be added later.
 AX_APPEND_LINK_FLAGS([-Wl,-z,now], [IMMEDIATE_LDFLAGS])
 AC_SUBST([IMMEDIATE_LDFLAGS])
+AS_CASE([$IMMEDIATE_LDFLAGS],[*-z,now*],
+    [AC_DEFINE([HAVE_BIND_NOW],[1],
+               [Define to 1 if immediate binding is available])])
 
 # On ELF systems we don't want the libraries to be unloaded since we don't clean them up properly,
 # so we request the nodelete flag to be enabled.
diff --git a/src/daemon/main.c b/src/daemon/main.c
index 55af4eca6..c80fa9437 100644
--- a/src/daemon/main.c
+++ b/src/daemon/main.c
@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
     pa_log_set_level(PA_LOG_NOTICE);
     pa_log_set_flags(PA_LOG_COLORS|PA_LOG_PRINT_FILE|PA_LOG_PRINT_LEVEL, PA_LOG_RESET);
 
-#if defined(__linux__) && defined(__OPTIMIZE__)
+#if !defined(HAVE_BIND_NOW) && defined(__linux__) && defined(__OPTIMIZE__)
     /*
        Disable lazy relocations to make usage of external libraries
        more deterministic for our RT threads. We abuse __OPTIMIZE__ as