diff --git a/indra/newview/CMakeLists.txt b/indra/newview/CMakeLists.txt
index f18107f673a505433cd9a34a4f41637ab2d6484d..ff099710f1a6ddd3a7eac1f0ce052ccec60c34d2 100644
--- a/indra/newview/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/indra/newview/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1643,7 +1643,14 @@ if (WINDOWS)
     endif (PACKAGE)
 endif (WINDOWS)
 
+# *NOTE - this list is very sensitive to ordering, test carefully on all
+# platforms if you change the releative order of the entries here.
+# In particular, cmake 2.6.4 (when buidling with linux/makefile generators)
+# appears to sometimes de-duplicate redundantly listed dependencies improperly.
+# To work around this, higher level modules should be listed before the modules
+# that they depend upon. -brad
 target_link_libraries(${VIEWER_BINARY_NAME}
+    ${UPDATER_LIBRARIES}
     ${LLAUDIO_LIBRARIES}
     ${LLCHARACTER_LIBRARIES}
     ${LLIMAGE_LIBRARIES}
@@ -1680,7 +1687,6 @@ target_link_libraries(${VIEWER_BINARY_NAME}
     ${OPENSSL_LIBRARIES}
     ${CRYPTO_LIBRARIES}
     ${LLLOGIN_LIBRARIES}
-    ${UPDATER_LIBRARIES}
     ${GOOGLE_PERFTOOLS_LIBRARIES}
     )