diff --git a/macros.nagios b/macros.nagios
index 6dea482..0b6262a 100644
--- a/macros.nagios
+++ b/macros.nagios
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@
 %nagios_plugindir       %{_prefix}/lib/nagios/plugins
 # install all event handler scripts into this directory
 %nagios_eventhandlerdir %{_prefix}/lib/nagios/plugins/eventhandler
+# files like p1.pl are located directly in this directory
+%nagios_libdir          %{_prefix}/lib/nagios
 # Nagios uses this directory for status files
 %nagios_localstatedir   %{_var}/lib/nagios
 # Nagios configuration should be stored here
diff --git a/nagios-rpm-macros.changes b/nagios-rpm-macros.changes
index 4ba04d6..9a13350 100644
--- a/nagios-rpm-macros.changes
+++ b/nagios-rpm-macros.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Nov  1 12:55:27 UTC 2011 - lars@linux-schulserver.de
+
+- added %nagios_libdir
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Nov  1 12:18:55 UTC 2011 - lars@linux-schulserver.de