diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index cfb27f42..6096a991 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 DESTDIR=/usr/
+LIBDIR=/usr/lib/
 SBINDIR=/sbin
 CONFDIR=/etc/iproute2
 DOCDIR=/share/doc/iproute2
@@ -7,7 +8,7 @@ MANDIR=/share/man
 # Path to db_185.h include
 DBM_INCLUDE:=/usr/include
 
-DEFINES= -DRESOLVE_HOSTNAMES -DDESTDIR=\"$(DESTDIR)\"
+DEFINES= -DRESOLVE_HOSTNAMES -DLIBDIR=\"$(LIBDIR)\"
 
 #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 9a092630..f4cbeb3e 100644
--- a/ip/iplink.c
+++ b/ip/iplink.c
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@
 #include "ip_common.h"
 
 #define IPLINK_IOCTL_COMPAT	1
-#ifndef DESTDIR
-#define DESTDIR "/usr/"
+#ifndef LIBDIR
+#define LIBDIR "/usr/lib/"
 #endif
 
 static void usage(void) __attribute__((noreturn));
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ struct link_util *get_link_kind(const char *id)
 		if (strcmp(l->id, id) == 0)
 			return l;
 
-	snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), DESTDIR "/lib/ip/link_%s.so", id);
+	snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), LIBDIR "/ip/link_%s.so", id);
 	dlh = dlopen(buf, RTLD_LAZY);
 	if (dlh == NULL) {
 		/* look in current binary, only open once */
diff --git a/tc/Makefile b/tc/Makefile
index 41aa59dd..a3005e92 100644
--- a/tc/Makefile
+++ b/tc/Makefile
@@ -73,10 +73,10 @@ libtc.a: $(TCLIB)
 	$(AR) rcs $@ $(TCLIB)
 
 install: all
-	mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)/lib/tc
+	mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDIR)/tc
 	install -m 0755 tc $(DESTDIR)$(SBINDIR)
 	for i in $(TCSO); \
-	do install -m 755 $$i $(DESTDIR)/lib/tc; \
+	do install -m 755 $$i $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDIR)/tc; \
 	done
 
 clean:
diff --git a/tc/tc_util.c b/tc/tc_util.c
index ef14d8d9..fe2c7eb5 100644
--- a/tc/tc_util.c
+++ b/tc/tc_util.c
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@
 #include "utils.h"
 #include "tc_util.h"
 
-#ifndef DESTDIR
-#define DESTDIR "/usr/"
+#ifndef LIBDIR
+#define LIBDIR "/usr/lib/"
 #endif
 
 const char *get_tc_lib(void)
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ const char *get_tc_lib(void)
 
 	lib_dir = getenv("TC_LIB_DIR");
 	if (!lib_dir)
-		lib_dir = DESTDIR "/lib/tc";
+		lib_dir = LIBDIR "/tc/";
 
 	return lib_dir;
 }