diff --git a/dev-tcltk/tclxml/tclxml-3.1-r1.ebuild b/dev-tcltk/tclxml/tclxml-3.1-r1.ebuild
--- a/dev-tcltk/tclxml/tclxml-3.1-r1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-tcltk/tclxml/tclxml-3.1-r1.ebuild
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/dev-tcltk/tclxml/tclxml-3.1-r1.ebuild,v 1.2 2007/12/24 11:50:38 mr_bones_ Exp $
 
-inherit eutils
+inherit eutils multilib
 
 DESCRIPTION="Pure Tcl implementation of an XML parser."
 HOMEPAGE="http://tclxml.sourceforge.net/"
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ src_unpack() {
 }
 
 src_compile() {
-	local myconf=""
+	local myconf="--with-tcl=/usr/$(get_libdir)"
 
 	use threads && myconf="${myconf} --enable-threads"
 
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ src_compile() {
 
 	if use xml ; then
 		cd "${S}"/libxml2
-		econf ${myconf} --with-Tclxml=.. || die
+		econf ${myconf} --with-Tclxml=..  --with-libxml2-lib=/usr/$(get_libdir) || die
 		emake || die
 	fi
 	if use expat ; then