diff --git a/pcre.changes b/pcre.changes
index 78b72ad..18d629a 100644
--- a/pcre.changes
+++ b/pcre.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed May 27 18:03:13 CEST 2009 - ms@suse.de
+
+- moved libpcre and libpcreposix to %{_lib} (bnc #507449)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue May  5 14:24:17 CEST 2009 - ms@suse.de
 
diff --git a/pcre.spec b/pcre.spec
index fe49a34..c95a999 100644
--- a/pcre.spec
+++ b/pcre.spec
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 Name:           pcre
 BuildRequires:  gcc-c++
 Version:        7.9
-Release:        1
+Release:        2
 Summary:        A library for Perl-compatible regular expressions
 License:        BSD 3-Clause; Other uncritical OpenSource License
 Group:          System/Libraries
@@ -88,6 +88,11 @@ Authors:
 mv %{buildroot}/usr/share/doc/pcre %{buildroot}/%{_defaultdocdir}/pcre
 #empty dependecy_libs
 %{__rm} -f %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/*.la
+#move pcre and pcreposix library into /lib
+%{__mkdir_p} %{buildroot}/%{_lib}
+mv %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/libpcre{,posix}.so.* %{buildroot}/%{_lib}
+#update the symlinks for linking.
+%{__ln_s} -v /%{_lib}/$(readlink %{buildroot}/%{_lib}/%{name}.so) %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/%{name}.so
 
 %check
 export LANG=POSIX
@@ -108,6 +113,7 @@ make test
 %defattr(-,root,root)
 %doc AUTHORS COPYING ChangeLog INSTALL LICENCE NEWS NON-UNIX-USE README
 %doc doc/html doc/*.txt
+/%{_lib}/*.so.*
 %{_libdir}/*.so.*
 %{_bindir}/pcregrep
 %{_bindir}/pcretest
@@ -124,6 +130,8 @@ make test
 %{_mandir}/man3/*.gz
 
 %changelog
+* Wed May 27 2009 ms@suse.de
+- moved libpcre and libpcreposix to %%{_lib} (bnc #507449)
 * Tue May 05 2009 ms@suse.de
 - Release 7.9 11-Apr-09 (bnc #500734)
   Mostly bugfixes and tidies with just a couple of minor