diff --git a/Source/cmComputeLinkInformation.cxx b/Source/cmComputeLinkInformation.cxx
index a32bb48a0..50d832438 100644
--- a/Source/cmComputeLinkInformation.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmComputeLinkInformation.cxx
@@ -377,9 +377,9 @@ cmComputeLinkInformation
 
   // Add the search path entries requested by the user to path ordering.
   this->OrderLinkerSearchPath
-    ->AddUserDirectories(this->Target->Target->GetLinkDirectories());
+    ->AddUserDirectories(this->Target->GetLinkDirectories());
   this->OrderRuntimeSearchPath
-    ->AddUserDirectories(this->Target->Target->GetLinkDirectories());
+    ->AddUserDirectories(this->Target->GetLinkDirectories());
 
   // Set up the implicit link directories.
   this->LoadImplicitLinkInfo();
@@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ cmComputeLinkInformation
     // Construct a mask to not bother with this behavior for link
     // directories already specified by the user.
     std::vector<std::string> const& dirs =
-        this->Target->Target->GetLinkDirectories();
+        this->Target->GetLinkDirectories();
     this->OldLinkDirMask.insert(dirs.begin(), dirs.end());
     }
 
diff --git a/Source/cmGeneratorTarget.cxx b/Source/cmGeneratorTarget.cxx
index 95d93bcf8..75165766e 100644
--- a/Source/cmGeneratorTarget.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmGeneratorTarget.cxx
@@ -1732,6 +1732,11 @@ cmListFileBacktrace cmGeneratorTarget::GetBacktrace() const
   return this->Target->GetBacktrace();
 }
 
+const std::vector<std::string>&cmGeneratorTarget::GetLinkDirectories() const
+{
+  return this->Target->GetLinkDirectories();
+}
+
 //----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 bool cmGeneratorTarget::HaveWellDefinedOutputFiles() const
 {
diff --git a/Source/cmGeneratorTarget.h b/Source/cmGeneratorTarget.h
index cc7d585a3..38e182695 100644
--- a/Source/cmGeneratorTarget.h
+++ b/Source/cmGeneratorTarget.h
@@ -184,6 +184,8 @@ public:
 
   cmListFileBacktrace GetBacktrace() const;
 
+  const std::vector<std::string>& GetLinkDirectories() const;
+
   /** Get the macro to define when building sources in this target.
       If no macro should be defined null is returned.  */
   const char* GetExportMacro() const;
diff --git a/Source/cmLocalVisualStudio6Generator.cxx b/Source/cmLocalVisualStudio6Generator.cxx
index 3b25edab1..fd0af618c 100644
--- a/Source/cmLocalVisualStudio6Generator.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmLocalVisualStudio6Generator.cxx
@@ -1052,7 +1052,7 @@ void cmLocalVisualStudio6Generator
     }
   std::vector<std::string>::const_iterator i;
   const std::vector<std::string>& libdirs =
-      target->Target->GetLinkDirectories();
+      target->GetLinkDirectories();
   for(i = libdirs.begin(); i != libdirs.end(); ++i)
     {
     std::string path = *i;