diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 723eb5d3..cfb27f42 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
-DESTDIR=
-SBINDIR=/usr/sbin
+DESTDIR=/usr/
+SBINDIR=/sbin
 CONFDIR=/etc/iproute2
-DOCDIR=/usr/share/doc/iproute2
-MANDIR=/usr/share/man
+DOCDIR=/share/doc/iproute2
+MANDIR=/share/man
 
 # Path to db_185.h include
 DBM_INCLUDE:=/usr/include
 
-DEFINES= -DRESOLVE_HOSTNAMES
+DEFINES= -DRESOLVE_HOSTNAMES -DDESTDIR=\"$(DESTDIR)\"
 
 #options if you have a bind>=4.9.4 libresolv (or, maybe, glibc)
 LDLIBS=-lresolv
diff --git a/ip/iplink.c b/ip/iplink.c
index c70c84ad..9a092630 100644
--- a/ip/iplink.c
+++ b/ip/iplink.c
@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@
 #include "ip_common.h"
 
 #define IPLINK_IOCTL_COMPAT	1
+#ifndef DESTDIR
+#define DESTDIR "/usr/"
+#endif
 
 static void usage(void) __attribute__((noreturn));
 
@@ -78,7 +81,7 @@ struct link_util *get_link_kind(const char *id)
 		if (strcmp(l->id, id) == 0)
 			return l;
 
-	snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "/usr/lib/ip/link_%s.so", id);
+	snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), DESTDIR "/lib/ip/link_%s.so", id);
 	dlh = dlopen(buf, RTLD_LAZY);
 	if (dlh == NULL) {
 		/* look in current binary, only open once */
diff --git a/netem/Makefile b/netem/Makefile
index 2d7d68bb..b6ccfc6a 100644
--- a/netem/Makefile
+++ b/netem/Makefile
@@ -20,9 +20,9 @@ stats: stats.c
 	$(HOSTCC) $(CCOPTS) -I../include -o $@ $@.c -lm
 
 install: all
-	mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/tc
+	mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)/lib/tc
 	for i in $(DISTDATA); \
-	do install -m 755 $$i $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/tc; \
+	do install -m 755 $$i $(DESTDIR)/lib/tc; \
 	done
 
 clean:
diff --git a/tc/Makefile b/tc/Makefile
index bf2df007..4116983e 100644
--- a/tc/Makefile
+++ b/tc/Makefile
@@ -72,10 +72,10 @@ libtc.a: $(TCLIB)
 	$(AR) rcs $@ $(TCLIB)
 
 install: all
-	mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/tc
+	mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)/lib/tc
 	install -m 0755 tc $(DESTDIR)$(SBINDIR)
 	for i in $(TCSO); \
-	do install -m 755 $$i $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/tc; \
+	do install -m 755 $$i $(DESTDIR)/lib/tc; \
 	done
 
 clean:
diff --git a/tc/tc_util.c b/tc/tc_util.c
index cd9dd594..ba7c0c9d 100644
--- a/tc/tc_util.c
+++ b/tc/tc_util.c
@@ -24,13 +24,17 @@
 #include "utils.h"
 #include "tc_util.h"
 
+#ifndef DESTDIR
+#define DESTDIR "/usr/"
+#endif
+
 const char *get_tc_lib(void)
 {
 	const char *lib_dir;
 
 	lib_dir = getenv("TC_LIB_DIR");
 	if (!lib_dir)
-		lib_dir = "/usr/lib/tc";
+		lib_dir = DESTDIR "/lib/tc";
 
 	return lib_dir;
 }