diff --git a/pythonforandroid/recipes/gevent/__init__.py b/pythonforandroid/recipes/gevent/__init__.py
index 5933fb3364..98fb2c316e 100644
--- a/pythonforandroid/recipes/gevent/__init__.py
+++ b/pythonforandroid/recipes/gevent/__init__.py
@@ -13,9 +13,10 @@ def get_recipe_env(self, arch=None, with_flags_in_cc=True):
         """
         - Moves all -I<inc> -D<macro> from CFLAGS to CPPFLAGS environment.
         - Moves all -l<lib> from LDFLAGS to LIBS environment.
+        - Copies all -l<lib> from LDLIBS to LIBS environment.
         - Fixes linker name (use cross compiler)  and flags (appends LIBS)
         """
-        env = super(GeventRecipe, self).get_recipe_env(arch, with_flags_in_cc)
+        env = super().get_recipe_env(arch, with_flags_in_cc)
         # CFLAGS may only be used to specify C compiler flags, for macro definitions use CPPFLAGS
         regex = re.compile(r'(?:\s|^)-[DI][\S]+')
         env['CPPFLAGS'] = ''.join(re.findall(regex, env['CFLAGS'])).strip()
@@ -24,6 +25,7 @@ def get_recipe_env(self, arch=None, with_flags_in_cc=True):
         # LDFLAGS may only be used to specify linker flags, for libraries use LIBS
         regex = re.compile(r'(?:\s|^)-l[\w\.]+')
         env['LIBS'] = ''.join(re.findall(regex, env['LDFLAGS'])).strip()
+        env['LIBS'] += ' {}'.format(''.join(re.findall(regex, env['LDLIBS'])).strip())
         env['LDFLAGS'] = re.sub(regex, '', env['LDFLAGS'])
         info('Moved "{}" from LDFLAGS to LIBS.'.format(env['LIBS']))
         return env
diff --git a/tests/recipes/test_gevent.py b/tests/recipes/test_gevent.py
index fa56fe6a11..8c6601e255 100644
--- a/tests/recipes/test_gevent.py
+++ b/tests/recipes/test_gevent.py
@@ -29,9 +29,11 @@ def test_get_recipe_env(self):
             # checks the regex doesn't parse `python3-libffi-openssl` as a `-libffi`
             '-L/path/to/python3-libffi-openssl/library3 '
         )
+        mocked_ldlibs = ' -lm'
         mocked_env = {
             'CFLAGS': mocked_cflags,
             'LDFLAGS': mocked_ldflags,
+            'LDLIBS': mocked_ldlibs,
         }
         with patch('pythonforandroid.recipe.CythonRecipe.get_recipe_env') as m_get_recipe_env:
             m_get_recipe_env.return_value = mocked_env
@@ -53,11 +55,13 @@ def test_get_recipe_env(self):
             ' -L/path/to/library2'
             ' -L/path/to/python3-libffi-openssl/library3 '
         )
-        expected_libs = '-lm -lpython3.7m'
+        expected_ldlibs = mocked_ldlibs
+        expected_libs = '-lm -lpython3.7m -lm'
         expected_env = {
             'CFLAGS': expected_cflags,
             'CPPFLAGS': expected_cppflags,
             'LDFLAGS': expected_ldflags,
+            'LDLIBS': expected_ldlibs,
             'LIBS': expected_libs,
         }
         self.assertEqual(expected_env, env)