diff --git a/packages/multimedia/vdr-plugin-restfulapi/package.mk b/packages/multimedia/vdr-plugin-restfulapi/package.mk
index 6b904c3413..dac3c2f06f 100644
--- a/packages/multimedia/vdr-plugin-restfulapi/package.mk
+++ b/packages/multimedia/vdr-plugin-restfulapi/package.mk
@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@ make_target() {
   make \
     LIBDIR="." \
     LOCDIR="./locale" \
-    LIBS="-lcxxtools-http -lcxxtools" \
     all install-i18n
 }
 
diff --git a/packages/multimedia/vdr-plugin-restfulapi/patches/vdr-plugin-restfulapi-pkgconfig.patch b/packages/multimedia/vdr-plugin-restfulapi/patches/vdr-plugin-restfulapi-pkgconfig.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c0c9cf8512
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/multimedia/vdr-plugin-restfulapi/patches/vdr-plugin-restfulapi-pkgconfig.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -Naur vdr-plugin-restfulapi-0.2.1.4/Makefile vdr-plugin-restfulapi-0.2.1.4.patch/Makefile
+--- vdr-plugin-restfulapi-0.2.1.4/Makefile	2015-03-18 23:12:01.000000000 +0100
++++ vdr-plugin-restfulapi-0.2.1.4.patch/Makefile	2016-01-07 05:24:24.036888492 +0100
+@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
+ 
+ DEFINES += -DPLUGIN_NAME_I18N='"$(PLUGIN)"'
+ 
+-LIBS    += $(shell cxxtools-config --libs) -lcxxtools-http
++LIBS += $(shell pkg-config --libs cxxtools-http cxxtools)
+ CONFDIR  = $(call PKGCFG,configdir)
+ PLGCONFDIR = $(CONFDIR)/plugins/$(PLUGIN)
+