diff --git a/app-arch/libarchive/libarchive-3.7.9.recipe b/app-arch/libarchive/libarchive-3.7.9.recipe
index 91d1aa83f..33cbd88a5 100644
--- a/app-arch/libarchive/libarchive-3.7.9.recipe
+++ b/app-arch/libarchive/libarchive-3.7.9.recipe
@@ -118,10 +118,10 @@ INSTALL()
 
 	# Search paths including the package version in them are not useful here
 	# (and they will get out-of-sync as soon as xz_utils and/or libxml2 get updated).
-	sed -e "s,-L/packages/xz_utils-[^/]*/.self/develop/lib ,," \
-		-i $developDir/lib/pkgconfig/libarchive.pc
-	sed -e "s,-L/packages/libxml2-[^/]*/.self/develop/lib ,," \
-		-i $developDir/lib/pkgconfig/libarchive.pc
+	sed -e "s,-L/packages/xz_utils[^/]*/.self/$relativeDevelopLibDir ,," \
+		-i $developLibDir/pkgconfig/libarchive.pc
+	sed -e "s,-L/packages/libxml2[^/]*/.self/$relativeDevelopLibDir ,," \
+		-i $developLibDir/pkgconfig/libarchive.pc
 
 	packageEntries devel \
 		$developDir \