diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 6aea926..75f21f6 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ if(BUILD_ENABLE_DEBUG)
     add_definitions(-DBUILD_ENABLE_DEBUG)
 endif()
 
+set(SYSCONFDIR "/etc" CACHE STRING "system config dir")
+
 find_package(PkgConfig)
 pkg_check_modules (GLIB2 REQUIRED glib-2.0)
 pkg_check_modules (UDEV REQUIRED libudev)
diff --git a/res/CMakeLists.txt b/res/CMakeLists.txt
index 4cb3f19..b28fa2b 100644
--- a/res/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/res/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -8,5 +8,5 @@ install(
 
 INSTALL(
     FILES org.freedesktop.miracle.conf
-    DESTINATION /etc/dbus-1/system.d 
+    DESTINATION ${SYSCONFDIR}/dbus-1/system.d
     )