diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-plugins-package.inc b/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-plugins-package.inc
index 5962e4bdf3..0503b34ea3 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-plugins-package.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-plugins-package.inc
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 PACKAGESPLITFUNCS_prepend = " split_gstreamer10_packages "
 PACKAGESPLITFUNCS_append = " set_metapkg_rdepends "
-LIBV = "0.10"
 
 python split_gstreamer10_packages () {
     gst_libdir = d.expand('${libdir}/gstreamer-${LIBV}')
diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-plugins.inc b/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-plugins.inc
index fc9567a3f8..4c9716d1ed 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-plugins.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-plugins.inc
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ EXTRA_OECONF = "--disable-valgrind ${GSTREAMER_DEBUG} --disable-examples "
 
 acpaths = "-I ${S}/common/m4 -I ${S}/m4"
 
+LIBV = "0.10"
 require gst-plugins-package.inc
 
 PACKAGES_DYNAMIC += "^${PN}-.*"