diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 57a49508b3..5ad537e10a 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -235,6 +235,14 @@ if(NOT EXISTS ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/src/xml/fox/.git)
 endif()
 add_subdirectory(src/xml/fox)
 
+#===============================================================================
+# RPATH information
+#===============================================================================
+
+# add the automatically determined parts of the RPATH
+# which point to directories outside the build tree to the install RPATH
+set(CMAKE_INSTALL_RPATH_USE_LINK_PATH TRUE)
+
 #===============================================================================
 # Build OpenMC executable
 #===============================================================================