diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/libunwind/libunwind_1.8.1.bb b/meta/recipes-support/libunwind/libunwind_1.8.1.bb
index 68d7a98ee4..1dca39e1b7 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/libunwind/libunwind_1.8.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/libunwind/libunwind_1.8.1.bb
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[lzma] = "--enable-minidebuginfo,--disable-minidebuginfo,xz"
 PACKAGECONFIG[zlib] = "--enable-zlibdebuginfo,--disable-zlibdebuginfo,zlib"
 PACKAGECONFIG[latexdocs] = "--enable-documentation, --disable-documentation, latex2man-native"
 
-EXTRA_OECONF = "--enable-static"
+EXTRA_OECONF = "--enable-static --libexecdir=${libdir}"
 
 # http://errors.yoctoproject.org/Errors/Details/20487/
 ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET:armv4 = "arm"