diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index e615e56..719a8fe 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -23,10 +23,21 @@ sha512sums=('de7116c09f282a27920a1382df84aa86f559e537664bb30689605177ce37dc50677
 create_links() {
     # create soname links
     find "$pkgdir" -type f -name '*.so*' ! -path '*xorg/*' -print0 | while read -d $'\0' _lib; do
-        _soname=$(dirname "${_lib}")/$(readelf -d "${_lib}" | grep -Po 'SONAME.*: \[\K[^]]*' || true)
-        _base=$(echo ${_soname} | sed -r 's/(.*).so.*/\1.so/')
-        [[ -e "${_soname}" ]] || ln -s $(basename "${_lib}") "${_soname}"
-        [[ -e "${_base}" ]] || ln -s $(basename "${_soname}") "${_base}"
+        _dirname="$(dirname "${_lib}")"
+        _original="$(basename "${_lib}")"
+        _soname="$(readelf -d "${_lib}" | grep -Po 'SONAME.*: \[\K[^]]*' || true)"
+        _base="$(echo ${_soname} | sed -r 's/(.*)\.so.*/\1.so/')"
+
+        pushd "${_dirname}" >/dev/null
+
+        if [[ -n "${_soname}" && ! -e "./${_soname}" ]]; then
+            ln -s $(basename "${_lib}") "./${_soname}"
+        fi
+        if [[ -n "${_base}" && ! -e "./${_base}" ]]; then
+            ln -s "./${_soname}" "./${_base}"
+        fi
+
+        popd >/dev/null
     done
 }