diff --git a/libspreadsheet.pc.in b/libspreadsheet.pc.in
index 80ee926..71c9116 100644
--- a/libspreadsheet.pc.in
+++ b/libspreadsheet.pc.in
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Version: @VERSION@
 URL: http://www.gnumeric.org
 Requires: glib-2.0 gobject-2.0 libgsf-1 libxml-2.0 gtk+-2.0 libglade-2.0 ${libgoffice}
 Requires.private:
-Libs: -L${libdir} -lspreadsheet-${GNUMERIC_API_VER}
+Libs: -L${libdir} -lspreadsheet-${VERSION}
 
 # for now include both the directory and the child, until we rename the includes in svn
 Cflags: -I${includedir}/libspreadsheet-@GNUMERIC_API_VER@/spreadsheet -I${includedir}/libspreadsheet-@GNUMERIC_API_VER@ -I${gnumeric_libdir}/include
