diff --git a/poky/meta/classes/gtk-doc.bbclass b/poky/meta/classes/gtk-doc.bbclass
index b4f6754..707d74d 100644
--- a/poky/meta/classes/gtk-doc.bbclass
+++ b/poky/meta/classes/gtk-doc.bbclass
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
     if [ ${GTKDOC_ENABLED} = True ]; then
         # Write out a qemu wrapper that will be given to gtkdoc-scangobj so that it
         # can run target helper binaries through that.
-        qemu_binary="${@qemu_wrapper_cmdline(d, '$STAGING_DIR_HOST', ['\$GIR_EXTRA_LIBS_PATH','$STAGING_DIR_HOST/${libdir}','$STAGING_DIR_HOST/${base_libdir}'])}"
+        qemu_binary="${@qemu_wrapper_cmdline(d, '$STAGING_DIR_HOST', ['\\$GIR_EXTRA_LIBS_PATH','$STAGING_DIR_HOST/${libdir}','$STAGING_DIR_HOST/${base_libdir}'])}"
         cat > ${B}/gtkdoc-qemuwrapper << EOF
 #!/bin/sh
 # Use a modules directory which doesn't exist so we don't load random things
@@ -51,6 +51,9 @@
 GIR_EXTRA_LIBS_PATH=\`find ${B} -name *.so -printf "%h\n"|sort|uniq| tr '\n' ':'\`\$GIR_EXTRA_LIBS_PATH
 GIR_EXTRA_LIBS_PATH=\`find ${B} -name .libs| tr '\n' ':'\`\$GIR_EXTRA_LIBS_PATH
 
+# meson sets this wrongly (only to libs in build-dir), qemu-wrapper_cmdline() and GIR_EXTRA_LIBS_PATH take care of it properly
+unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+
 if [ -d ".libs" ]; then
     $qemu_binary ".libs/\$@"
 else