diff --git a/Make.vars.in b/Make.vars.in
index 133da5f122c..ea3869db066 100644
--- a/Make.vars.in
+++ b/Make.vars.in
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ infodir         = @infodir@
 mandir          = @mandir@
 fontdir         = $(datadir)/wine/fonts
 includedir      = @includedir@/wine
-dlldir          = @libdir@/wine
+dlldir          = @dlldir@
 fakedlldir      = $(dlldir)/fakedlls
 top_srcdir      = @top_srcdir@
 top_builddir    = @top_builddir@
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 317bade0ae9..a296e6716e9 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -715,6 +715,7 @@ IMPLIBEXT
 DLLFLAGS
 DLLPREFIX
 DLLEXT
+dlldir
 CPP
 OPENGL_LIBS
 XLIB
@@ -6408,6 +6409,8 @@ done
 
 
 
+dlldir="\${libdir}/wine"
+
 DLLEXT=""
 
 DLLPREFIX=""
@@ -6904,6 +6907,7 @@ clean::
     DLLFLAGS="$DLLFLAGS -fPIC"
     DLLEXT=".so"
     DLLPREFIX="lib"
+    dlldir="\${libdir}"
     { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking whether the compiler supports -fPIC -Wl,--export-dynamic" >&5
 $as_echo_n "checking whether the compiler supports -fPIC -Wl,--export-dynamic... " >&6; }
 if ${ac_cv_cflags__fPIC__Wl___export_dynamic+:} false; then :
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 8ac0216f8d1..dacee3aab28 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -676,6 +676,7 @@ AC_CHECK_HEADERS([libprocstat.h],,,
 
 dnl **** Check for working dll ****
 
+AC_SUBST(dlldir,"\${libdir}/wine")
 AC_SUBST(DLLEXT,"")
 AC_SUBST(DLLPREFIX,"")
 AC_SUBST(DLLFLAGS,"-D_REENTRANT")
@@ -873,6 +874,7 @@ clean::
     DLLFLAGS="$DLLFLAGS -fPIC"
     DLLEXT=".so"
     DLLPREFIX="lib"
+    dlldir="\${libdir}"
     WINE_TRY_CFLAGS([-fPIC -Wl,--export-dynamic],
                     [AC_SUBST(LDEXECFLAGS,["-Wl,--export-dynamic"])])
     WINE_TRY_CFLAGS([-fPIC -Wl,--rpath,\$ORIGIN/../lib],