diff --git a/common/environment/configure/gnu-configure-args.sh b/common/environment/configure/gnu-configure-args.sh
index c0a2f4602b9..dafbf5dc110 100644
--- a/common/environment/configure/gnu-configure-args.sh
+++ b/common/environment/configure/gnu-configure-args.sh
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ export configure_args+=" --host=$XBPS_TRIPLET --build=$XBPS_TRIPLET"
 # Always use wordsize-specific libdir even though the real path is lib
 # This is to make sure 32-bit and 64-bit libs can coexist when looking
 # up things (the opposite-libdir is always symlinked as libNN)
-export configure_args+=" --libdir=/usr/lib${XBPS_TARGET_WORDSIZE}"
+export configure_args+=" --libdir=\${exec_prefix}/lib${XBPS_TARGET_WORDSIZE}"
 
 _AUTOCONFCACHEDIR=${XBPS_COMMONDIR}/environment/configure/autoconf_cache