diff --git a/mesonbuild/compilers/d.py b/mesonbuild/compilers/d.py
index 139069446..40906c5b5 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/compilers/d.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/compilers/d.py
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ class DCompiler(Compiler):
                 # translate library link flag
                 dcargs.append('-L=' + arg)
                 continue
-            elif arg.startswith('-L'):
+            elif arg.startswith('-L/') or arg.startswith('-L./'):
                 # we need to handle cases where -L is set by e.g. a pkg-config
                 # setting to select a linker search path. We can however not
                 # unconditionally prefix '-L' with '-L' because the user might