diff --git a/mkspecs/features/toolchain.prf b/mkspecs/features/toolchain.prf
index eb7b1385f2..b3726a1160 100644
--- a/mkspecs/features/toolchain.prf
+++ b/mkspecs/features/toolchain.prf
@@ -111,6 +111,26 @@ isEmpty($${target_prefix}.INCDIRS) {
                 }
             }
         }
+        !darwin:clang {
+            # Clang on a non-Apple system (that is, a system without ld64 -- say, with GNU ld
+            # or gold under Linux) will not print any library search path. Need to use another
+            # invocation with different options (which in turn doesn't print include search
+            # paths, so it can't just be used in place of the above code).
+            # What's more, -print-search-dirs can't be used on clang on Apple because it
+            # won't print all the library paths (only the clang-internal ones).
+            output = $$system("$$cmd_prefix $$QMAKE_CXX -print-search-dirs", lines, ec)
+            !equals(ec, 0): \
+                error("Cannot run compiler '$$QMAKE_CXX'. Maybe you forgot to setup the environment?")
+
+            for (line, output) {
+                contains(line, "^libraries: .*") {
+                    line ~= s,^libraries: ,,
+                    paths = $$split(line, $$QMAKE_DIRLIST_SEP)
+                    for (path, paths): \
+                        QMAKE_DEFAULT_LIBDIRS += $$clean_path($$replace(path, ^=, $$[SYSROOT]))
+                }
+            }
+        }
         isEmpty(QMAKE_DEFAULT_LIBDIRS)|isEmpty(QMAKE_DEFAULT_INCDIRS): \
             !integrity: \
                 error("failed to parse default search paths from compiler output")