diff -Nru d-shlibs-0.47/debian/changelog d-shlibs-0.47ma1/debian/changelog
--- d-shlibs-0.47/debian/changelog	2011-07-15 11:25:54.000000000 +0000
+++ d-shlibs-0.47ma1/debian/changelog	2012-01-24 16:35:55.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+d-shlibs (0.47ma1) oneiric; urgency=low
+
+  * Add environment variabl to specify libdir.
+
+ -- Michal Suchanek <hramrach@gmail.com>  Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:35:28 +0100
+
 d-shlibs (0.47) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Fix typo in armel-specific ld-linux3-dev suppression.
diff -Nru d-shlibs-0.47/d-shlibmove d-shlibs-0.47ma1/d-shlibmove
--- d-shlibs-0.47/d-shlibmove	2011-07-02 13:44:26.000000000 +0000
+++ d-shlibs-0.47ma1/d-shlibmove	2012-01-24 16:58:13.000000000 +0000
@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@
 set -e
 set -o pipefail
 
+if [ -z "$libdir" ] ; then
+  libdir=usr/lib
+fi
+libdir_q="$(echo "$libdir" | sed -e s,/,\\\\/,)"
+
 function getname () {
     local SONAMELIBNAME
     local SONAMEVERSION
@@ -118,11 +123,11 @@
 	--extralib)
 	    readlibnameinfo "$2"
 	    DEVLIB_TO_CHECK="${DEVLIB_TO_CHECK} $2"
-	    echo "$(dirname $2)/${PK}.a usr/lib"  >> "${INSTALLFILE_DEVPKG}"
-	    echo "$(dirname $2)/${PK}.la usr/lib || true"  >> "${INSTALLFILE_DEVPKG}"
-	    echo "$(dirname $2)/${PK}.so usr/lib"  >> "${INSTALLFILE_DEVPKG}"
-	    echo "$(dirname ${REALSO})/${SONAME}  usr/lib"  >> "${INSTALLFILE_SHLPKG}"
-	    echo "${REALSO} usr/lib" >> "${INSTALLFILE_SHLPKG}"
+	    echo "$(dirname $2)/${PK}.a '$libdir'"  >> "${INSTALLFILE_DEVPKG}"
+	    echo "$(dirname $2)/${PK}.la '$libdir' || true"  >> "${INSTALLFILE_DEVPKG}"
+	    echo "$(dirname $2)/${PK}.so '$libdir'"  >> "${INSTALLFILE_DEVPKG}"
+	    echo "$(dirname ${REALSO})/${SONAME}  '$libdir'"  >> "${INSTALLFILE_SHLPKG}"
+	    echo "${REALSO} '$libdir'" >> "${INSTALLFILE_SHLPKG}"
 	    
 	    shift; shift;
 	    ;;
@@ -186,15 +191,15 @@
 PKGSHL="${SONAMEPKGNAME}${SUFFIX}${TRANSITIONSUFFIX}"
 
 INSTALLDIR="install -d -m 755 "
-echo "${INSTALLDIR} debian/${PKGDEV}/usr/lib" >> "$execscript"
-echo "${INSTALLDIR} debian/${PKGSHL}/usr/lib"  >> "$execscript"
-echo "mv $(dirname $1)/${PK}.a debian/${PKGDEV}/usr/lib"  >> "$execscript"
+echo "${INSTALLDIR} debian/${PKGDEV}/'$libdir'" >> "$execscript"
+echo "${INSTALLDIR} debian/${PKGSHL}/'$libdir'"  >> "$execscript"
+echo "mv $(dirname $1)/${PK}.a debian/${PKGDEV}/'$libdir'"  >> "$execscript"
 if [ "${INCLUDELA}" = "yes" ]; then
-    echo "mv $(dirname $1)/${PK}.la debian/${PKGDEV}/usr/lib || true"  >> "$execscript"
+    echo "mv $(dirname $1)/${PK}.la debian/${PKGDEV}/'$libdir'"  >> "$execscript"
 fi
-echo "mv $(dirname $1)/${PK}.so debian/${PKGDEV}/usr/lib"  >> "$execscript"
-echo "mv $(dirname ${REALSO})/${SONAME} debian/${PKGSHL}/usr/lib"  >> "$execscript"
-echo "mv ${REALSO} debian/${PKGSHL}/usr/lib"  >> "$execscript"
+echo "mv $(dirname $1)/${PK}.so debian/${PKGDEV}/'$libdir'"  >> "$execscript"
+echo "mv $(dirname ${REALSO})/${SONAME} debian/${PKGSHL}/'$libdir'"  >> "$execscript"
+echo "mv ${REALSO} debian/${PKGSHL}/'$libdir'"  >> "$execscript"
 
 if [ -n "${SHLIBSLOCALVER}" ]; then 
     echo "echo \"${SONAMELIBNAME} ${SONAMEVERSION} ${PKGSHL} (>= ${SHLIBSLOCALVER})\" >> debian/shlibs.local" >> "$execscript"
@@ -212,7 +217,7 @@
     echo "mv ${A} debian/${PKGSHL}/${B}" >> "${execscript}"
 done
 if [ "${INCLUDELA}" = "no" ]; then
-    sed -i -e "/^.*\.la usr\/lib || true$/d" "${INSTALLFILE_DEVPKG}"
+    sed -i -e "/^.*\.la $libdir_q || true$/d" "${INSTALLFILE_DEVPKG}"
 fi
 cat "${INSTALLFILE_DEVPKG}" | while read A B; do
     echo "${INSTALLDIR} debian/${PKGDEV}/${B}" >> "${execscript}"
diff -Nru d-shlibs-0.47/d-shlibmove.1 d-shlibs-0.47ma1/d-shlibmove.1
--- d-shlibs-0.47/d-shlibmove.1	2011-06-10 01:03:45.000000000 +0000
+++ d-shlibs-0.47ma1/d-shlibmove.1	2012-01-24 16:46:13.000000000 +0000
@@ -138,12 +138,18 @@
 
 Return 0 on success.
 
+.SH "ENVIRONMENT"
+
+libdir -- the directory containing libraries. Used without the leading slash. Default: usr/lib
+
+Added in version 0.47ma1
+
 .SH "EXAMPLES"
 
 The following is a sample command-line of a hypothetical package 
 installation.
 
-.B "d-shlibmove --commit --movedev ""debian/tmp/usr/include/*"" usr/include --extralib debian/tmp/usr/lib/libhomeman-pthread.so debian/tmp/usr/lib/libhomeman.so"
+.B "libdir=usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu d-shlibmove --commit --movedev ""debian/tmp/usr/include/*"" usr/include --extralib debian/tmp/usr/lib/libhomeman-pthread.so debian/tmp/usr/lib/libhomeman.so"
 
 .SH "AUTHOR"
 Junichi Uekawa <dancer@debian.org> <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>