diff --git a/package/eudev/eudev.mk b/package/eudev/eudev.mk
index 705370689d..f050563feb 100644
--- a/package/eudev/eudev.mk
+++ b/package/eudev/eudev.mk
@@ -57,13 +57,12 @@ endef
 
 HOST_EUDEV_DEPENDENCIES = host-gperf host-pkgconf
 
-HOST_EUDEV_SYSCONFDIR = $(if $(BR2_PACKAGE_SYSTEMD),/usr/lib,/etc)
 HOST_EUDEV_CONF_OPTS = \
 	--prefix=/usr \
 	--sbindir=/sbin \
 	--libexecdir=/lib \
 	--with-rootlibdir=/lib \
-	--sysconfdir=$(HOST_EUDEV_SYSCONFDIR) \
+	--sysconfdir=/etc \
 	--disable-blkid \
 	--disable-introspection \
 	--disable-kmod \
@@ -86,7 +85,7 @@ HOST_EUDEV_TARGET_FINALIZE_HOOKS += HOST_EUDEV_BUILD_HWDB
 # of tharget/, not the real one, so the files are still available on
 # re-builds (foo-rebuild, etc...)
 define HOST_EUDEV_RM_HWDB_SRC
-	rm -rf $(TARGET_DIR)/$(HOST_EUDEV_SYSCONFDIR)/udev/hwdb.d/
+	rm -rf $(TARGET_DIR)/etc/udev/hwdb.d/
 endef
 HOST_EUDEV_ROOTFS_PRE_CMD_HOOKS += HOST_EUDEV_RM_HWDB_SRC