sbindir as per the "configure - Configure the source tree" document states that "By default sbindir is set to EPREFIX/sbin." However doing a fresh download and compile of httpd-2.4.7 with: "./configure --with-included-apr" "make" "make install" This results in a /usr/local/apache2 folder without any "sbin" sub-directory. All the binaries are simply lumped into the "bin" directory. This appears to be due to config.layout having the following: <Layout Apache> prefix: /usr/local/apache2 exec_prefix: ${prefix} bindir: ${exec_prefix}/bin sbindir: ${exec_prefix}/bin It is expected to see: sbindir: ${exec_prefix}/sbin If this is the new default then the documentation should be updated. If this is a mistake then the config.layout should be updated.