diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/hdf5/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/hdf5/package.py
index fd08a2d9be8..3b887aab29b 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/hdf5/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/hdf5/package.py
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ def symlink_to_h5hl_wrappers(self):
             with working_dir(self.prefix.bin):
                 # CMake's FindHDF5 relies only on h5cc so it doesn't find the HL
                 # component unless it uses h5hlcc so we symlink h5cc to h5hlcc etc
-                symlink_files = {"h5cc": "h5lcc", "h5c++": "h5lc++"}
+                symlink_files = {"h5cc": "h5hlcc", "h5c++": "h5hlc++"}
                 for old, new in symlink_files.items():
                     if os.path.isfile(old):
                         os.remove(old)