diff --git a/extra/nodejs/build b/extra/nodejs/build
index aeb8310e..e04f7fcb 100755
--- a/extra/nodejs/build
+++ b/extra/nodejs/build
@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@
 # Fix build when libatomic.so does not exist in the system.
 # This may be provided by compiler-rt which requires no additional
 # linker flags to be used.
-[ -r "$KISS_ROOT/usr/lib/libatomic.so" ] || {
+case $("$CC" -print-file-name=libatomic.so) in */*) ;; *)
     sed 's/-latomic//' node.gyp > _
     mv -f _ node.gyp
-}
+esac
 
 ./configure \
     --shared-zlib \