diff --git a/misc/py-xgboost/Makefile b/misc/py-xgboost/Makefile
index 62f451469690..fcb779b1ee8b 100644
--- a/misc/py-xgboost/Makefile
+++ b/misc/py-xgboost/Makefile
@@ -1,41 +1,41 @@
 PORTNAME=	xgboost
 DISTVERSIONPREFIX=	v
 DISTVERSION=	1.4.1
 CATEGORIES=	misc # machine-learning
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Scalable, Portable and Distributed Gradient Boosting (GBDT, GBRT, GBM)
 
 LICENSE=	APACHE20
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/../LICENSE
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	cmake:devel/cmake
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libdmlc.so:devel/dmlc-core \
 		libxgboost.so:misc/xgboost
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYNUMPY} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}scipy>0:science/py-scipy@${PY_FLAVOR}
 TEST_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pytest>0:devel/py-pytest@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 
 USES=		compiler:c11 python:3.5+ localbase:ldflags
 USE_PYTHON=	distutils autoplist
 USE_LDCONFIG=	yes
 
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 GH_ACCOUNT=	dmlc
 
 WRKSRC_SUBDIR=	python-package
 
 PYDISTUTILS_INSTALLARGS=	--use-system-libxgboost # this is ignored so that setup.py has to be patched, see https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/issues/6879
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 POST_PLIST=	fix-plist
 
 fix-plist: # https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/issues/5705
-	@${REINPLACE_CMD} 's|.*libxgboost.so$$||' ${TMPPLIST}
+	@${REINPLACE_CMD} 's|.*libxgboost${PYTHON_EXT_SUFFIX}.so$$||' ${TMPPLIST}
 
 do-test: # tests fail w/out CUDA: https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/issues/6881
 	@cd ${WRKSRC}/.. && ${PYTHON_CMD} -m pytest
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>