diff --git a/platform/galileo/Makefile.galileo b/platform/galileo/Makefile.galileo
index 662042e56..1a2238370 100644
--- a/platform/galileo/Makefile.galileo
+++ b/platform/galileo/Makefile.galileo
@@ -5,7 +5,9 @@ LIBGCC_PATH = /usr/lib/gcc/$(shell gcc -dumpmachine)/$(shell gcc -dumpversion)
 
 CONTIKI_TARGET_DIRS = . core/sys/
 CONTIKI_TARGET_MAIN = ${addprefix $(OBJECTDIR)/,contiki-main.o}
-CONTIKI_SOURCEFILES += contiki-main.c newlib-syscalls.c clock.c rtimer-arch.c
+CONTIKI_SOURCEFILES += contiki-main.c clock.c rtimer-arch.c
+
+PROJECT_SOURCEFILES += newlib-syscalls.c
 
 CONTIKI_CPU=$(CONTIKI)/cpu/x86
 include $(CONTIKI)/cpu/x86/Makefile.x86_quarkX1000
@@ -22,4 +24,4 @@ endif
 # Ideally, this should be part of LDFLAGS (-lc -lm etc). However, we found out that archive
 # static files (.a) must be linked after our own object files, otherwise the linker gets lost
 # and we get undefined references only.
-TARGET_LIBFILES = $(OBJECTDIR)/newlib-syscalls.o $(LIBC)/lib/libm.a $(LIBC)/lib/libc.a $(LIBGCC_PATH)/32/libgcc.a
+TARGET_LIBFILES = $(LIBC)/lib/libm.a $(LIBC)/lib/libc.a $(LIBGCC_PATH)/32/libgcc.a