diff --git a/packages/build-brainscales/package.py b/packages/build-brainscales/package.py
index d8349c67a4d21bf29c24540e2b02f23606ee6b62..6ea4a3706b226418dc17b2b19ac81dbedada5887 100644
--- a/packages/build-brainscales/package.py
+++ b/packages/build-brainscales/package.py
@@ -140,10 +140,18 @@ class BuildBrainscales(WafPackage):
         # spack tries to find headers and libraries by itself (i.e. it's not
         # relying on the compiler to find it); we explicitly expose the
         # spack-provided env vars that contain include and library paths
+        if 'SPACK_STORE_INCLUDE_DIRS' in my_env:
+            for dir in reversed(get_path(my_env, "SPACK_STORE_INCLUDE_DIRS")):
+                env.prepend_path("C_INCLUDE_PATH", dir)
+                env.prepend_path("CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH", dir)
         if 'SPACK_INCLUDE_DIRS' in my_env:
             for dir in reversed(get_path(my_env, "SPACK_INCLUDE_DIRS")):
                 env.prepend_path("C_INCLUDE_PATH", dir)
                 env.prepend_path("CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH", dir)
+        if 'SPACK_STORE_LINK_DIRS' in my_env:
+            for dir in reversed(get_path(my_env, "SPACK_STORE_LINK_DIRS")):
+                env.prepend_path("LIBRARY_PATH", dir)
+                env.prepend_path("LD_LIBRARY_PATH", dir)
         if 'SPACK_LINK_DIRS' in my_env:
             for dir in reversed(get_path(my_env, "SPACK_LINK_DIRS")):
                 env.prepend_path("LIBRARY_PATH", dir)