diff --git a/src/template/solaris b/src/template/solaris
index 6114c3c1c8..034bb91416 100644
--- a/src/template/solaris
+++ b/src/template/solaris
@@ -11,9 +11,8 @@ esac
 
 # tools/thread/thread_test must be run
 # -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS enables 5-arg getpwuid_r, among other things
-if test "$GCC" = yes 
-then	THREAD_CPPFLAGS="-D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS"
-	THREAD_LIBS="-pthread"
-else	THREAD_CPPFLAGS="-mt -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS"
-	THREAD_LIBS="-lpthread"
+THREAD_CPPFLAGS="-D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS"
+if test "$GCC" != yes 
+then	THREAD_CPPFLAGS="$THREAD_CPPFLAGS -mt"
 fi
+THREAD_LIBS="-lpthread"