diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/mesa/mesa.inc b/meta/recipes-graphics/mesa/mesa.inc
index c4efc13438..d850246724 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-graphics/mesa/mesa.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/mesa/mesa.inc
@@ -55,11 +55,17 @@ ANY_OF_DISTRO_FEATURES:class-target = "opengl vulkan"
 
 PLATFORMS ??= "${@bb.utils.filter('PACKAGECONFIG', 'x11 wayland', d)}"
 
-export YOCTO_ALTERNATE_EXE_PATH = "${STAGING_LIBDIR}/llvm-config"
-export LLVM_CONFIG = "${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/llvm-config${MESA_LLVM_RELEASE}"
-export WANT_LLVM_RELEASE = "${MESA_LLVM_RELEASE}"
-
+# By placing llvm-config in the target sysroot bindir, it will then map values
+# to the target libdir magically. We can safely add to path as there are no other binaries
+# there.
+PATH:prepend = "${STAGING_BINDIR_CROSS}:${STAGING_BINDIR}:"
 MESA_LLVM_RELEASE ?= "${LLVMVERSION}"
+do_configure:prepend () {
+	if [ -e ${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/llvm-config${MESA_LLVM_RELEASE} ]; then
+		cp ${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/llvm-config${MESA_LLVM_RELEASE} ${STAGING_BINDIR}
+		cp ${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/llvm-config ${STAGING_BINDIR}
+	fi
+}
 
 # set the MESA_BUILD_TYPE to either 'release' (default) or 'debug'
 # by default the upstream mesa sources build a debug release