diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yaml b/.github/workflows/test.yaml
index 603953625..4a0d36531 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yaml
@@ -100,13 +100,12 @@ jobs:
           # Install Nutils from `dist` dir created in job
           # `build-python-package`.
           python -um pip install --no-index --find-links ./dist nutils
-      - name: Get library directory
-        id: get-lib-dir
+      - name: Configure MKL
+        id: configure-mkl
         if: ${{ matrix.matrix-backend == 'mkl' }}
-        run: python -um devtools.gha.get_lib_dir
+        run: python -um devtools.gha.configure_mkl
       - name: Test
         env:
-          LD_LIBRARY_PATH: ${{ steps.get-lib-dir.outputs.libdir }}
           NUTILS_DEBUG: all
         run: |
           mkdir testenv
diff --git a/devtools/gha/configure_mkl.py b/devtools/gha/configure_mkl.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9ecff944e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devtools/gha/configure_mkl.py
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+from .. import log
+import sys, site, os
+
+libsubdir = 'lib'
+prefixes = list(site.PREFIXES)
+if hasattr(site, 'getuserbase'):
+  prefixes.append(site.getuserbase())
+for prefix in prefixes:
+  libdir = os.path.join(prefix, libsubdir)
+  if not os.path.exists(os.path.join(libdir, 'libmkl_rt.so.1')):
+    continue
+  log.set_output('libdir', libdir)
+  break
+else:
+  log.error('cannot find {} in any of the following dirs: {}'.format('libmkl_rt.so.1', ' '.join(prefixes)))
+
+lib = os.path.join(libdir, 'libmkl_rt.so')
+if not os.path.exists(lib):
+  os.symlink('libmkl_rt.so.1', lib)
+
+github_env = os.environ.get('GITHUB_ENV')
+assert github_env
+ld_library_path = ':'.join(filter(None, (os.environ.get('LD_LIBRARY_PATH', ''), libdir)))
+with open(github_env, 'a') as f:
+  print('LD_LIBRARY_PATH={}'.format(ld_library_path), file=f)
diff --git a/devtools/gha/get_lib_dir.py b/devtools/gha/get_lib_dir.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 9e411ab92..000000000
--- a/devtools/gha/get_lib_dir.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-from .. import log
-import sys, site, os
-
-libname = 'libmkl_rt.so'
-libsubdir = 'lib'
-prefixes = list(site.PREFIXES)
-if hasattr(site, 'getuserbase'):
-  prefixes.append(site.getuserbase())
-for prefix in prefixes:
-  libdir = os.path.join(prefix, libsubdir)
-  if not os.path.exists(os.path.join(libdir, libname)):
-    continue
-  log.set_output('libdir', libdir)
-  break
-else:
-  log.error('cannot find {} in any of the following dirs: {}'.format(libname, ' '.join(prefixes)))