diff --git a/src/plugins/cmakeprojectmanager/fileapidataextractor.cpp b/src/plugins/cmakeprojectmanager/fileapidataextractor.cpp
index 80ea50c6d0c..1474a8da4da 100644
--- a/src/plugins/cmakeprojectmanager/fileapidataextractor.cpp
+++ b/src/plugins/cmakeprojectmanager/fileapidataextractor.cpp
@@ -179,6 +179,14 @@ QVector<FolderNode::LocationInfo> extractBacktraceInformation(const BacktraceInf
     return info;
 }
 
+static bool isChildOf(const FilePath &path, const QStringList &prefixes)
+{
+    for (const QString &prefix : prefixes)
+        if (path.isChildOf(FilePath::fromString(prefix)))
+            return true;
+    return false;
+}
+
 QList<CMakeBuildTarget> generateBuildTargets(const PreprocessedData &input,
                                              const FilePath &sourceDirectory,
                                              const FilePath &buildDirectory)
@@ -269,16 +277,28 @@ QList<CMakeBuildTarget> generateBuildTargets(const PreprocessedData &input,
                         if (f.role == "libraries")
                             tmp = tmp.parentDir();
 
-                        if (!tmp.isEmpty()
-                            && tmp.isDir()) { // f.role is libraryPath or frameworkPath
-                            librarySeachPaths.append(tmp);
-                            // Libraries often have their import libs in ../lib and the
-                            // actual dll files in ../bin on windows. Qt is one example of that.
-                            if (tmp.fileName() == "lib" && HostOsInfo::isWindowsHost()) {
-                                const FilePath path = tmp.parentDir().pathAppended("bin");
+                        if (!tmp.isEmpty() && tmp.isDir()) {
+                            // f.role is libraryPath or frameworkPath
+                            // On Linux, exclude sub-paths from "/lib(64)", "/usr/lib(64)" and
+                            // "/usr/local/lib" since these are usually in the standard search
+                            // paths. There probably are more, but the naming schemes are arbitrary
+                            // so we'd need to ask the linker ("ld --verbose | grep SEARCH_DIR").
+                            if (!HostOsInfo::isLinuxHost()
+                                || !isChildOf(tmp,
+                                              {"/lib",
+                                               "/lib64",
+                                               "/usr/lib",
+                                               "/usr/lib64",
+                                               "/usr/local/lib"})) {
+                                librarySeachPaths.append(tmp);
+                                // Libraries often have their import libs in ../lib and the
+                                // actual dll files in ../bin on windows. Qt is one example of that.
+                                if (tmp.fileName() == "lib" && HostOsInfo::isWindowsHost()) {
+                                    const FilePath path = tmp.parentDir().pathAppended("bin");
 
-                                if (path.isDir())
-                                    librarySeachPaths.append(path);
+                                    if (path.isDir())
+                                        librarySeachPaths.append(path);
+                                }
                             }
                         }
                     }