diff --git a/dev-libs/olm/olm-3.1.5-r1.ebuild b/dev-libs/olm/olm-3.1.5-r1.ebuild
index 2daa1e9..4958450 100644
--- a/dev-libs/olm/olm-3.1.5-r1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-libs/olm/olm-3.1.5-r1.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2020 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 2020-2021 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=7
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ src_prepare() {
 
 src_compile() {
 	cmake_src_compile
+	export LIBRARY_PATH=""${S}"/lib64/" # Let python build find the already built libolm
 	use python && (cd python; distutils-r1_src_compile)
 }
 
diff --git a/dev-libs/olm/olm-3.2.1.ebuild b/dev-libs/olm/olm-3.2.1.ebuild
index 7ff8dc0..b37c325 100644
--- a/dev-libs/olm/olm-3.2.1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-libs/olm/olm-3.2.1.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2020 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 2020-2021 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=7
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ src_configure() {
 
 src_compile() {
 	cmake_src_compile
+	export LIBRARY_PATH=""${S}"/lib64/" # Let python build find the already built libolm
 	use python && (cd python; distutils-r1_src_compile)
 }