diff --git a/main/xulrunner/APKBUILD b/main/xulrunner/APKBUILD
index 577e8b5aa62191551d8c59ac539092972ee60422..2dee32809777701615de8939d0f13af5777a55fc 100644
--- a/main/xulrunner/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/xulrunner/APKBUILD
@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ source="http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/${_ffoxver}
 	uclibc-malloc_usable_size.patch
 	cairo.patch
 	"
+# help our shared-object scanner to find the libs
+ldpath="/usr/lib/xulrunner-$pkgver"
 
 _builddir="${srcdir}/mozilla-release"
 prepare() {