diff --git a/xmp-plugin-audacious.spec b/xmp-plugin-audacious.spec
index ab0d72a..cdb0e22 100644
--- a/xmp-plugin-audacious.spec
+++ b/xmp-plugin-audacious.spec
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ This package contains the xmp plugin for the Audacious media player.
 %{!?aud_plugin_dep:echo 'No audacious(plugin-api) dependency!' && exit -1}
 %endif
 
+# just a guard
+pkg-config --print-variables audacious | grep ^plugin_dir
+
 %setup -qn %{name}-%{commit}
 %patch0 -p1 -b .r
 %patch1 -p1 -b .old-api
@@ -59,6 +62,9 @@ make install DESTDIR=%{buildroot}
 %{plugin_dir}/Input/*.so
 
 %changelog
+* Sun Apr 27 2014 Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@fedoraproject.org>
+- Add a guard for pkg-config based plugin_dir in %%prep
+
 * Sun Apr 27 2014 Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@fedoraproject.org> - 4.0.0-0.7.20131127gitff01498
 - pkgconfig input_plugin_dir is no longer, so use plugin_dir
   (this fixes #1091756 dir conflicts)