diff --git a/recipes/libs/zlib/recipe.toml b/recipes/libs/zlib/recipe.toml
index 303801789..5d062709a 100644
--- a/recipes/libs/zlib/recipe.toml
+++ b/recipes/libs/zlib/recipe.toml
@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@ template = "custom"
 script = """
 DYNAMIC_INIT
 # See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21396988/zlib-build-not-configuring-properly-with-cross-compiler-ignores-ar.
-CHOST="${TARGET}" "${COOKBOOK_CONFIGURE}" --prefix=""
+CHOST="${TARGET}" "${COOKBOOK_CONFIGURE}" --prefix="/usr"
 "${COOKBOOK_MAKE}" -j "$(nproc)"
 "${COOKBOOK_MAKE}" install DESTDIR="${COOKBOOK_STAGE}"
-patchelf --set-soname 'libz.so.1.3' "${COOKBOOK_STAGE}/lib/libz.so.1.3"
+patchelf --set-soname 'libz.so.1.3' "${COOKBOOK_STAGE}/usr/lib/libz.so.1.3"
 """
 
 [package]