diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 501e6538d4..86124d8060 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ APR_ADDTO(CFLAGS, `$apr_config --cflags`)
 APR_ADDTO(CPPFLAGS, `$apr_config --cppflags`)
 APR_ADDTO(LDFLAGS, `$apr_config --ldflags`)
 APR_ADDTO(INCLUDES, `$apr_config --includes`)
+SHLIBPATH_VAR=`$apr_config --shlib-path-var`
 
 echo $ac_n "${nl}Configuring Apache Portable Runtime Utility library...${nl}"