diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 99f39682a..3e8f8b4b7 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+1.9.0-dev.157 | 2023-10-23 10:58:57 +0200
+
+  * Fix spicy-build to correctly infer library directory. (Robin Sommer, Corelight)
+
+    Closes https://github.com/zeek/zeek/issues/3384.
+
 1.9.0-dev.155 | 2023-10-23 10:54:13 +0200
 
   * GH-1565: Disable capturing backtraces with HILTI exceptions in non-debug builds. (Robin Sommer, Corelight)
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index fdaf8c985..772c3576d 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.9.0-dev.155
+1.9.0-dev.157
diff --git a/spicy/toolchain/bin/spicy-build b/spicy/toolchain/bin/spicy-build
index c49c6e3e2..1fc6fcf93 100755
--- a/spicy/toolchain/bin/spicy-build
+++ b/spicy/toolchain/bin/spicy-build
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ fi
 
 cxx="$(${spicy_config} --cxx ${spicy_config_flags}) $(${spicy_config} --cxxflags ${spicy_config_flags})"
 ldflags="$(${spicy_config} --ldflags ${spicy_config_flags})"
-spicy_lib_dir=$(${spicy_config} --libdirs | sed 's/^\. //g') # A bit of a hack to get the dir we want ...
+spicy_lib_dir=$(for i in $(${spicy_config} --libdirs); do test -e "${i}/spicy_rt.hlt" && echo "${i}" && break; done) # extract the directory we want
 spicy_driver=${spicy_lib_dir}/spicy-driver-host.cc
 
 rt_modules=""