This is one of the most bogus configure ever seen, almost everything is hard-coded in it, and when it's not hard-coded, it exclusively guesses from the build system with no option to change it. --- ./configure.orig 2020-02-05 14:03:00.957219538 +0100 +++ ./configure 2020-02-05 14:03:13.969210152 +0100 @@ -9843,7 +9843,7 @@ ################################################################################ { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for default run directory" >&5 $as_echo_n "checking for default run directory... " >&6; } -RUN_DIR="/run" +RUN_DIR="/var/run" test -d "/run" || RUN_DIR="/var/run" { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $RUN_DIR" >&5 $as_echo "$RUN_DIR" >&6; }