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make libexecdir=/usr/bin install</userinput></screen></para>
</sect2>
+<sect2>
+<title>FHS compliance notes</title>
+
+<para>By default, the location of the updatedb database is in /usr/var.
+If you would rather be FHS compliant, you may wish to use another
+location. The following commands use the database file
+<filename>/var/lib/misc/locatedb</filename> which is FHS compliant.</para>
+
+<para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../findutils-4.1.patch &amp;&amp;
+./configure --prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;
+make localstatedir=/var/lib/misc &amp;&amp;
+make localstatedir=/var/lib/misc libexecdir=/usr/bin install</userinput></screen></para>
+</sect2>