diff --git a/package/hannes/dmapi/dmapi.conf b/package/hannes/dmapi/dmapi.conf
index 5c055471c..6da78b339 100644
--- a/package/hannes/dmapi/dmapi.conf
+++ b/package/hannes/dmapi/dmapi.conf
@@ -24,5 +24,5 @@
 # take the config options from xfsprogs.conf
 
 makeinstopt="$makeinstopt install-dev"
-libdir="$root/lib"
 var_append confopt ' ' "--libexecdir='$libdir'"
+libdir="$root/lib"