diff --git a/templates/shared-mime-info-fix-pkgconfig.diff b/templates/shared-mime-info-fix-pkgconfig.diff
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b4ddf583c04
--- /dev/null
+++ b/templates/shared-mime-info-fix-pkgconfig.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- Makefile.in.orig	2008-10-11 06:25:26.000000000 +0200
++++ Makefile.in	2008-10-11 06:25:36.000000000 +0200
+@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ EXTRA_DIST = \
+ 
+ CLEANFILES = freedesktop.org.xml po/stamp-it
+ DISTCLEANFILES = intltool-extract intltool-merge intltool-update
+-pkgconfigdir = $(datadir)/pkgconfig
++pkgconfigdir = $(libdir)/pkgconfig
+ pkgconfig_DATA = shared-mime-info.pc
+ all: config.h
+ 	$(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) all-recursive
diff --git a/templates/shared-mime-info.tmpl b/templates/shared-mime-info.tmpl
index e494fb7e74c..e7c325fd93a 100755
--- a/templates/shared-mime-info.tmpl
+++ b/templates/shared-mime-info.tmpl
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # Template build file for 'shared-mime-info'.
 pkgname=shared-mime-info
 version=0.51
+patch_files="$pkgname-fix-pkgconfig.diff"
 extract_sufx=".tar.bz2"
 url=http://people.freedesktop.org/~hadess
 build_style=gnu_configure