diff --git a/meta/packages/matchbox-wm/matchbox-wm_1.2.bb b/meta/packages/matchbox-wm/matchbox-wm_1.2.bb
index 1e74123e3b..78c5be62ee 100644
--- a/meta/packages/matchbox-wm/matchbox-wm_1.2.bb
+++ b/meta/packages/matchbox-wm/matchbox-wm_1.2.bb
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ ALTERNATIVE_LINK = "${bindir}/x-window-manager"
 ALTERNATIVE_PATH = "${bindir}/matchbox-session"
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "10"
 
-EXTRA_OECONF = " --enable-startup-notification --disable-xrm"
+EXTRA_OECONF = " --enable-startup-notification --disable-xrm --with-expat-lib=${STAGING_LIBDIR} --with-expat-includes=${STAGING_INCDIR}"
 
 do_configure_prepend () {
         cp ${WORKDIR}/gconf-2.m4 ${S}/
diff --git a/meta/packages/matchbox-wm/matchbox-wm_svn.bb b/meta/packages/matchbox-wm/matchbox-wm_svn.bb
index 2edeb6d1ac..457d4c8df0 100644
--- a/meta/packages/matchbox-wm/matchbox-wm_svn.bb
+++ b/meta/packages/matchbox-wm/matchbox-wm_svn.bb
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ FILES_${PN} = "${bindir}/* \
                ${datadir}/themes/Default/matchbox \
                ${datadir}/themes/MBOpus/matchbox"
 
-EXTRA_OECONF = "--enable-startup-notification --disable-xrm --enable-expat"
+EXTRA_OECONF = " --enable-startup-notification --disable-xrm --with-expat-lib=${STAGING_LIBDIR} --with-expat-includes=${STAGING_INCDIR} --enable-expat"
 
 do_install_prepend() {
 	install ${WORKDIR}/kbdconfig ${S}/data/kbdconfig