diff --git a/packages/rust/build.sh b/packages/rust/build.sh
index 81a2d5df5..e80cfa034 100644
--- a/packages/rust/build.sh
+++ b/packages/rust/build.sh
@@ -43,11 +43,10 @@ termux_step_configure() {
 	# for backtrace-sys
 	export CC_x86_64_unknown_linux_gnu=gcc
 	export CFLAGS_x86_64_unknown_linux_gnu="-O2"
-	export LLVM_VERSION=$(grep ^TERMUX_PKG_VERSION= $TERMUX_PKG_BUILDER_DIR/../libllvm/build.sh | cut -f2 -d=)
-TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=1
+	export LLVM_MAJOR_VERSION=$(. $TERMUX_SCRIPTDIR/packages/libllvm/build.sh; echo $LLVM_MAJOR_VERSION)
 	unset CC CXX CPP LD CFLAGS CXXFLAGS CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS PKG_CONFIG RANLIB
 	# we can't use -L$PREFIX/lib since it breaks things but we need to link against libLLVM-9.so
-	ln -sf $PREFIX/lib/libLLVM-$LLVM_VERSION.so $TERMUX_STANDALONE_TOOLCHAIN/sysroot/usr/lib/$TERMUX_HOST_PLATFORM/$TERMUX_PKG_API_LEVEL/
+	ln -sf $PREFIX/lib/libLLVM-$LLVM_MAJOR_VERSION.so $TERMUX_STANDALONE_TOOLCHAIN/sysroot/usr/lib/$TERMUX_HOST_PLATFORM/$TERMUX_PKG_API_LEVEL/
 
 	# rust checks libs in PREFIX/lib. It then can't find libc.so and libdl.so because rust program doesn't
 	# know where those are. Putting them temporarly in $PREFIX/lib prevents that failure
@@ -90,9 +89,9 @@ termux_step_make_install() {
 		rust-installer-version \
 		manifest-* \
 		x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
-	rm $TERMUX_STANDALONE_TOOLCHAIN/sysroot/usr/lib/$TERMUX_HOST_PLATFORM/$TERMUX_PKG_API_LEVEL/libLLVM-$LLVM_VERSION.so
-
+	rm $TERMUX_STANDALONE_TOOLCHAIN/sysroot/usr/lib/$TERMUX_HOST_PLATFORM/$TERMUX_PKG_API_LEVEL/libLLVM-$LLVM_MAJOR_VERSION.so
 }
+
 termux_step_post_massage() {
 	rm -f lib/libtinfo.so.6
 	rm -f lib/libz.so