diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/openmpi/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/openmpi/package.py
index d996da98cc8..14491e700e7 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/openmpi/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/openmpi/package.py
@@ -1038,6 +1038,9 @@ def configure_args(self):
         if "schedulers=auto" not in spec:
             config_args.extend(self.with_or_without("schedulers"))
 
+        if spec.satisfies("schedulers=lsf"):
+            config_args.append("--with-lsf-libdir={0}".format(spec["lsf"].libs.directories[0]))
+
         config_args.extend(self.enable_or_disable("memchecker"))
         if spec.satisfies("+memchecker"):
             config_args.extend(["--enable-debug"])