On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 09:37:21AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Perhaps another solution would be to make the default for localstatedir be > /var instead of PREFIX/var. Ah, I see what do you mean. We do not alter $localstatedir in the configure script at all. This is is probably the problem you see. For the other directories we default to /bin, /lib, ... when the default prefix (NONE or /usr) detected. It seems $localstatedir and $sysconfdir need our care too. I have committed: https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/commit/3d2899651791bcb4ee8fe4e605acc83f3ae3471b Please, try it. The final summary from ./configure should be also more verbose about the paths now. Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com