diff --git a/widelands.changes b/widelands.changes
index 4c65e05..4b3c156 100644
--- a/widelands.changes
+++ b/widelands.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Jul  5 19:17:42 UTC 2017 - okurz@suse.com
+
+- Fix fatal error on startup referencing wrong data directory
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Jun 22 07:43:39 UTC 2017 - okurz@suse.com
 
diff --git a/widelands.spec b/widelands.spec
index 016a3f8..d699835 100644
--- a/widelands.spec
+++ b/widelands.spec
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ sed -i 's/\(install(TARGETS ${NAME} DESTINATION \)"."\( COMPONENT ExecutableFile
   -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=%{_prefix} \
   -DWL_INSTALL_PREFIX=%{_prefix} \
   -DWL_INSTALL_BINDIR=bin \
-  -DWL_INSTALL_DATADIR=share/%{name} \
+  -DWL_INSTALL_DATADIR=%{_datadir}/%{name} \
   -DWL_INSTALL_LOCALEDIR=%{_datadir}/%{name}/locale \
   -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE="Release" \
   -DBoost_USE_STATIC_LIBS=OFF \
@@ -112,6 +112,8 @@ install -D -m 0644 %{SOURCE1} %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/applications/%{name}.deskt
 rm -f %{buildroot}%{_prefix}/{COPYING,CREDITS,ChangeLog,VERSION}
 
 # No need to execute tests as they are already executed implicitly on install
+# instead do post-install test
+PATH=%{buildroot}%{_bindir}:$PATH widelands --help | grep 'This is Widelands'
 
 %files
 %defattr(-,root,root,-)