diff --git a/security/clamav/clamav.conf b/security/clamav/clamav.conf
index 3518e8b19..d5346b8fa 100644
--- a/security/clamav/clamav.conf
+++ b/security/clamav/clamav.conf
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 # This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
 #
 # Filename: package/.../clamav/clamav.conf
+# Copyright (C) 2008 The OpenSDE Project
 # Copyright (C) 2004 - 2006 The T2 SDE Project
 # Copyright (C) 1998 - 2003 Clifford Wolf
 #
@@ -15,4 +16,6 @@
 
 # --disable-debug causes ClamAV to return large ammounts of debugging text
 var_remove confopt " " "--disable-debug"
-confopt="$confopt --with-dbdir=$root/var/clamav"
+
+#FIXME: what if cross compiling? will it run?
+var_append extraconfopt ' ' "--with-dbdir=$root/var/lib/clamav"