diff --git a/package/Makefile.in b/package/Makefile.in
index 291108c144..87c831650d 100644
--- a/package/Makefile.in
+++ b/package/Makefile.in
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ HOST_CPPFLAGS  = -I$(HOST_DIR)/usr/include
 HOST_CFLAGS   ?= -O2
 HOST_CFLAGS   += $(HOST_CPPFLAGS)
 HOST_CXXFLAGS += $(HOST_CFLAGS)
-HOST_LDFLAGS  += -L$(HOST_DIR)/lib -L$(HOST_DIR)/usr/lib -Wl,-rpath,$(HOST_DIR)/usr/lib
+HOST_LDFLAGS  += -L$(HOST_DIR)/lib -Wl,-rpath,$(HOST_DIR)/lib
 
 # host-intltool should be executed with the system perl, so we save
 # the path to the system perl, before a host-perl built by Buildroot