diff --git a/tcl.spec b/tcl.spec
index 11b3569..6260b95 100644
--- a/tcl.spec
+++ b/tcl.spec
@@ -102,8 +102,8 @@ ln -s lib%{name}%{majorver}.so $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/lib%{name}.so
 # backward compatible symlink for legacy tcl packages that hardcode lib path
 # to prefix/lib/%{name}%{majorver}
 ## make /usr/lib for multilib archs
-mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_libdir}
-ln -s %{_datadir}/%{name}%{majorver} %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/%{name}%{majorver}
+mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_prefix}/lib
+ln -s %{_datadir}/%{name}%{majorver} %{buildroot}%{_prefix}/lib/%{name}%{majorver}
 
 mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_includedir}/%{name}-private/{generic,unix}
 find generic unix -name "*.h" -exec cp -p '{}' $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_includedir}/%{name}-private/'{}' ';'