diff --git a/libexec/rtld-elf/arm/reloc.c b/libexec/rtld-elf/arm/reloc.c
index 6bdda735e713..286e493ff87a 100644
--- a/libexec/rtld-elf/arm/reloc.c
+++ b/libexec/rtld-elf/arm/reloc.c
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 #include <sys/cdefs.h>
 __FBSDID("$FreeBSD$");
 #include <sys/param.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
 #include <sys/mman.h>
 
 #include <errno.h>
@@ -21,6 +22,7 @@ void
 arm_abi_variant_hook(Elf_Auxinfo **aux_info)
 {
 	Elf_Word ehdr;
+	struct stat sb;
 
 	/*
 	 * If we're running an old kernel that doesn't provide any data fail
@@ -37,13 +39,20 @@ arm_abi_variant_hook(Elf_Auxinfo **aux_info)
 	if ((ehdr & EF_ARM_VFP_FLOAT) != 0)
 		return;
 
+	/*
+	 * If there's no /usr/libsoft, then we don't have a system with both
+	 * hard and soft float. In that case, hope for the best and just
+	 * return. Such systems are required to have all soft or all hard
+	 * float ABI binaries and libraries. This is, at best, a transition
+	 * compatibility hack. Once we're fully hard-float, this should
+	 * be removed.
+	 */
+	if (stat("/usr/libsoft", &sb) != 0 || !S_ISDIR(sb.st_mode))
+		return;
+
 	/*
 	 * This is a soft float ABI binary. We need to use the soft float
-	 * settings. For the moment, the standard library path includes the hard
-	 * float paths as well. When upgrading, we need to execute the wrong
-	 * kind of binary until we've installed the new binaries. We could go
-	 * off whether or not /libsoft exists, but the simplicity of having it
-	 * in the path wins.
+	 * settings.
 	 */
 	ld_elf_hints_default = _PATH_SOFT_ELF_HINTS;
 	ld_path_libmap_conf = _PATH_SOFT_LIBMAP_CONF;
diff --git a/libexec/rtld-elf/paths.h b/libexec/rtld-elf/paths.h
index abfeb3f3ce1a..7d9d372c293c 100644
--- a/libexec/rtld-elf/paths.h
+++ b/libexec/rtld-elf/paths.h
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
 #define	_PATH_SOFT_ELF_HINTS	"/var/run/ld-elf-soft.so.hints"
 #define	_PATH_SOFT_LIBMAP_CONF	"/etc/libmap-soft.conf"
 #define	_PATH_SOFT_RTLD		"/libexec/ld-elf.so.1"
-#define	SOFT_STANDARD_LIBRARY_PATH "/libsoft:/usr/libsoft:/lib:/usr/lib"
+#define	SOFT_STANDARD_LIBRARY_PATH "/usr/libsoft"
 #define	LD_SOFT_		"LD_SOFT_"
 
 extern char *ld_elf_hints_default;
diff --git a/libexec/rtld-elf/rtld.c b/libexec/rtld-elf/rtld.c
index ad5d359452d4..66edc157d393 100644
--- a/libexec/rtld-elf/rtld.c
+++ b/libexec/rtld-elf/rtld.c
@@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ _rtld(Elf_Addr *sp, func_ptr_type *exit_proc, Obj_Entry **objp)
 
     trust = !issetugid();
 
-/*  md_abi_variant_hook(aux_info); */
+    md_abi_variant_hook(aux_info);
 
     ld_bind_now = getenv(_LD("BIND_NOW"));
     /*