diff --git a/gir/cairo-1.0.gir.in b/gir/cairo-1.0.gir.in
index e4c9fb3d..3351b184 100644
--- a/gir/cairo-1.0.gir.in
+++ b/gir/cairo-1.0.gir.in
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
   <package name="@CAIRO_GIR_PACKAGE@"/>
   <c:include name="cairo-gobject.h"/>
   <namespace name="cairo" version="1.0"
-	     shared-library="@CAIRO_SHARED_LIBRARY@"
+	     shared-library="@cairoLib@/@CAIRO_SHARED_LIBRARY@"
 	     c:identifier-prefixes="cairo"
 	     c:symbol-prefixes="cairo">
     <record name="Context" c:type="cairo_t" foreign="1"