diff --git a/tesseract.spec b/tesseract.spec
index 5a90220..89f6da4 100644
--- a/tesseract.spec
+++ b/tesseract.spec
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 
 Name:          tesseract
 Version:       5.3.0
-Release:       4%{?dist}
+Release:       5%{?dist}
 Summary:       Raw OCR Engine
 
 License:       Apache-2.0
@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ Source0:       https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/archive/%{version}%{?p
 # Honour TESSDATA_PREFIX
 # Build training libs statically
 Patch0:        tesseract_cmake.patch
+# Generate correct libdir path in /usr/lib64/pkgconfig/tesseract.pc
+# Already merged upstream, can be dropped at next release
+# https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/commit/5e116fa5cad249b8a08d22af652cf52f44fbb8cd
+Patch1:	       tesseract_libdir.patch
 
 
 BuildRequires: cmake
@@ -242,6 +246,9 @@ cp -a doc/*.5 %{buildroot}%{_mandir}/man5/
 
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Feb 03 2023 FeRD (Frank Dana) <ferdnyc@gmail.com> - 5.3.0-5
+- Add patch from upstream to fix pkg-config libdir value
+
 * Sat Jan 21 2023 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 5.3.0-4
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_38_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/tesseract_libdir.patch b/tesseract_libdir.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b3565d4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tesseract_libdir.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+From 5e116fa5cad249b8a08d22af652cf52f44fbb8cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Frank Dana <ferdnyc@gmail.com>
+Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2023 19:57:59 -0500
+Subject: [PATCH] Fix libdir in tesseract.pc from CMake
+
+tesseract.pc.cmake was hardcoding libdir to
+`{prefix}/lib`, which is wrong for systems that use
+`/usr/lib64/` on 64-bit. `CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR`
+is already expected to contain the libdir path
+relative to the install prefix.
+---
+ tesseract.pc.cmake | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/tesseract.pc.cmake b/tesseract.pc.cmake
+index 7f36ce19..5469a398 100644
+--- a/tesseract.pc.cmake
++++ b/tesseract.pc.cmake
+@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
+ prefix=@CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX@
+ exec_prefix=${prefix}/bin
+-libdir=${prefix}/lib
++libdir=${prefix}/@CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR@
+ includedir=${prefix}/include
+ 
+ Name: @tesseract_NAME@
+-- 
+2.39.1
+