--- /dev/null
+diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
+index 7868b7b..10ec68f 100644
+--- a/setup.py
++++ b/setup.py
+@@ -1067,6 +1067,7 @@ class PyBuildExt(build_ext):
+ if db_setup_debug: print "db lib: ", dblib, "not found"
+
+ except db_found:
++ rt_dblib_dir = None if cross_compiling else dblib_dir
+ if db_setup_debug:
+ print "bsddb using BerkeleyDB lib:", db_ver, dblib
+ print "bsddb lib dir:", dblib_dir, " inc dir:", db_incdir
+@@ -1081,7 +1082,7 @@ class PyBuildExt(build_ext):
+ exts.append(Extension('_bsddb', ['_bsddb.c'],
+ depends = ['bsddb.h'],
+ library_dirs=dblib_dir,
+- runtime_library_dirs=dblib_dir,
++ runtime_library_dirs=rt_dblib_dir,
+ include_dirs=db_incs,
+ libraries=dblibs))
+ else:
+@@ -1292,10 +1293,11 @@ class PyBuildExt(build_ext):
+ break
+ elif cand == "bdb":
+ if db_incs is not None:
++ rt_dblib_dir = None if cross_compiling else dblib_dir
+ print "building dbm using bdb"
+ dbmext = Extension('dbm', ['dbmmodule.c'],
+ library_dirs=dblib_dir,
+- runtime_library_dirs=dblib_dir,
++ runtime_library_dirs=rt_dblib_dir,
+ include_dirs=db_incs,
+ define_macros=[
+ ('HAVE_BERKDB_H', None),
--- /dev/null
+diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
+index 7868b7b..544fa7e 100644
+--- a/setup.py
++++ b/setup.py
+@@ -452,8 +452,9 @@ class PyBuildExt(build_ext):
+ # directly since an inconsistently reproducible issue comes up where
+ # the environment variable is not set even though the value were passed
+ # into configure and stored in the Makefile (issue found on OS X 10.3).
++ rt_lib_dirs = [] if cross_compiling else self.compiler.runtime_library_dirs
+ for env_var, arg_name, dir_list in (
+- ('LDFLAGS', '-R', self.compiler.runtime_library_dirs),
++ ('LDFLAGS', '-R', rt_lib_dirs),
+ ('LDFLAGS', '-L', self.compiler.library_dirs),
+ ('CPPFLAGS', '-I', self.compiler.include_dirs)):
+ env_val = sysconfig.get_config_var(env_var)