diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
index 9a57882b..d171d313 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yml
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ jobs:
           make V=1
       - name: Regular Finit
         run: |
-          ./configure --prefix= --enable-x11-common-plugin --with-watchdog --with-keventd
+          ./configure --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix= --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --enable-x11-common-plugin --with-watchdog --with-keventd
           make clean
           make V=1
       - name: Install to ~/tmp and Inspect
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 4b83a8d8..7c3f1b01 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Creating Makefiles
         run: |
           ./autogen.sh
-          ./configure --prefix= --enable-x11-common-plugin --with-watchdog --with-keventd
+          ./configure  --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix= --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --enable-x11-common-plugin --with-watchdog --with-keventd
       - name: Building release
         run: |
           make release