diff --git a/pisi/util.py b/pisi/util.py
index ff09c9a4..462781bc 100644
--- a/pisi/util.py
+++ b/pisi/util.py
@@ -521,6 +521,17 @@ def strip_directory(top, excludelist=[]):
             drpath = join_path(os.path.dirname(top), 
                                ctx.const.debug_dir_suffix, 
                                remove_prefix(top, frpath))
+
+            # Some upstream sources have buggy libtool and ltmain.sh with them, 
+            # which causes wrong path entries in *.la files. And these wrong path
+            # entries sometimes triggers compile-time errors or linkage problems. 
+            # Instead of patching all these buggy sources and maintain these patches,
+            # PISI removes wrong paths...
+            extension = os.path.splitext(frpath)[1]
+            if extension == ".la":
+                # FIXME: I'm regular expr. idiot, so one can convert this to python...
+                os.system("sed -i -e 's~-L/var/tmp/pisi/[[:graph:]]*~~g' %s" % frpath)
+                os.system("sed -i -e 's~/var/tmp/pisi/[[:graph:]]*/install/~/~g' %s" % frpath)
             
             # real path in .pisi package
             p = '/' + removepathprefix(top, frpath)