diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/openmpi/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/openmpi/default.nix
index 7725be4c8000..0ae1118a36b0 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/openmpi/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/openmpi/default.nix
@@ -240,11 +240,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
 
   postFixup =
     lib.optionalString (lib.elem "man" finalAttrs.outputs) ''
-      remove-references-to -t "''${!outputMan}" $(readlink -f $out/lib/libopen-pal${stdenv.hostPlatform.extensions.sharedLibrary})
+      remove-references-to -t "''${!outputMan}" $(readlink -f $out/lib/libopen-pal${stdenv.hostPlatform.extensions.library})
     ''
     + lib.optionalString (lib.elem "dev" finalAttrs.outputs) ''
       remove-references-to -t "''${!outputDev}" $out/bin/mpirun
-      remove-references-to -t "''${!outputDev}" $(readlink -f $out/lib/libopen-pal${stdenv.hostPlatform.extensions.sharedLibrary})
+      remove-references-to -t "''${!outputDev}" $(readlink -f $out/lib/libopen-pal${stdenv.hostPlatform.extensions.library})
 
       # The path to the wrapper is hard coded in libopen-pal.so, which we just cleared.
       wrapProgram "''${!outputDev}/bin/opal_wrapper" \