diff --git a/docs/examples/Makefile.example b/docs/examples/Makefile.example
index 03e7c3f64cf1e621d2ffeb1538e2ae4c43498843..0852c0f3c84d9e7dd0979527ecb8ff38cda0e3a5 100644
--- a/docs/examples/Makefile.example
+++ b/docs/examples/Makefile.example
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ LIBS = -lcurl -lsocket -lnsl -lssl -lcrypto -dl
 
 # Link the target with all objects and libraries
 $(TARGET) : $(OBJS)
-	$(CC) $(LDFLAGS) $(LIBS) -o $(TARGET) $(OBJS)
+	$(CC)  -o $(TARGET) $(OBJS) $(LDFLAGS) $(LIBS)
 
 # Compile the source files into object files
 ftpget.o : ftpget.c
diff --git a/docs/examples/README b/docs/examples/README
index dfc0d5a8cd7fd809d228ff32959e24e43a87c524..dd053d8f0ed30483dff6a7d166f42cd5a7a8658b 100644
--- a/docs/examples/README
+++ b/docs/examples/README
@@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ Most examples should build fine using a command line like this:
 
   $ `curl-config --cc --cflags --libs` -o example example.c
 
+Some compilers don't like having the arguments in this order but instead
+want you do reorganize them like:
+
+  $ `curl-config --cc` -o example example.c `curl-config --cflags --libs`
+
 *PLEASE* do not use the curl.haxx.se site as a test target for your libcurl
 applications/experiments. Even if the examples in this directory use that site
 as an example URL at some places, it doesn't mean that the URLs work or that