diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 5ed4694f1..c3c67491b 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ bindir = get_option('bindir')
 libdir = get_option('libdir')
 libexecdir = get_option('libexecdir')
 sbindir = get_option('sbindir')
-rc_libexecdir = libexecdir / 'rc'
+rc_libexecdir = get_option('prefix') / libexecdir / 'rc'
 rc_bindir = rc_libexecdir / 'bin'
 rc_sbindir = rc_libexecdir / 'sbin'
 rc_shdir = rc_libexecdir / 'sh'