diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 51bbd5d..37e7d27 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -173,6 +173,9 @@ fi
 dnl
 dnl Substitute the variables into the various Makefiles
 dnl
+# runstatedir isn't available for Autoconf < 2.70
+AS_IF([test -z "${runstatedir}"], [runstatedir='${localstatedir}/run'])
+AC_SUBST([runstatedir])
 AC_SUBST(CFLAGS)
 AC_SUBST(LDFLAGS)
 AC_SUBST(CPPFLAGS)
@@ -220,7 +223,6 @@ docs/Makefile
 docs/man5/Makefile
 docs/man5/tinyproxy.conf.txt
 docs/man8/Makefile
-docs/man8/tinyproxy.txt
 m4macros/Makefile
 tests/Makefile
 tests/scripts/Makefile
diff --git a/docs/man8/Makefile.am b/docs/man8/Makefile.am
index d2d7e19..17281cd 100644
--- a/docs/man8/Makefile.am
+++ b/docs/man8/Makefile.am
@@ -9,6 +9,17 @@ M_NAME=TINYPROXY
 man_MANS = \
 	$(MAN8_FILES:.txt=.8)
 
+edit = sed \
+	-e 's|@localstatedir[@]|$(localstatedir)|g' \
+	-e 's|@runstatedir[@]|$(runstatedir)|g' \
+	-e 's|@sysconfdir[@]|$(sysconfdir)|g' \
+	-e 's|@TINYPROXY_STATHOST[@]|$(TINYPROXY_STATHOST)|g'
+
+tinyproxy.txt: $(top_srcdir)/docs/man8/tinyproxy.txt.in Makefile
+	@rm -f $@ $@.tmp
+	$(AM_V_GEN) $(edit) $(top_srcdir)/docs/man8/$@.in > $@.tmp
+	@mv $@.tmp $@
+
 .txt.8:
 if HAVE_POD2MAN
 	$(AM_V_GEN) $(POD2MAN) --center="Tinyproxy manual" \
diff --git a/docs/man8/tinyproxy.txt.in b/docs/man8/tinyproxy.txt.in
index 7fa420f..9cf2d42 100644
--- a/docs/man8/tinyproxy.txt.in
+++ b/docs/man8/tinyproxy.txt.in
@@ -156,7 +156,11 @@ configuration variable `StatFile`.
 
 =head1 FILES
 
-`/etc/tinyproxy/tinyproxy.conf`, `/var/run/tinyproxy/tinyproxy.pid`, `/var/log/tinyproxy/tinyproxy.log`
+F<@sysconfdir@/tinyproxy/tinyproxy.conf>
+
+F<@runstatedir@/tinyproxy/tinyproxy.pid>
+
+F<@localstatedir@/log/tinyproxy/tinyproxy.log>
 
 =head1 BUGS
 
diff --git a/etc/Makefile.am b/etc/Makefile.am
index 57a5c01..045baac 100644
--- a/etc/Makefile.am
+++ b/etc/Makefile.am
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ edit = sed \
 	-e 's|@datarootdir[@]|$(datarootdir)|g' \
 	-e 's|@pkgsysconfdir[@]|$(pkgsysconfdir)|g' \
 	-e 's|@localstatedir[@]|$(localstatedir)|g' \
+	-e 's|@runstatedir[@]|$(runstatedir)|g' \
 	-e 's|@pkgdatadir[@]|$(pkgdatadir)|g' \
 	-e 's|@prefix[@]|$(prefix)|g' \
 	-e 's|@TINYPROXY_STATHOST[@]|$(TINYPROXY_STATHOST)|g'
diff --git a/etc/tinyproxy.conf.in b/etc/tinyproxy.conf.in
index d9598d3..af91d03 100644
--- a/etc/tinyproxy.conf.in
+++ b/etc/tinyproxy.conf.in
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ LogLevel Info
 # can be used for signalling purposes.
 # If not specified, no pidfile will be written.
 #
-#PidFile "@localstatedir@/run/tinyproxy/tinyproxy.pid"
+#PidFile "@runstatedir@/tinyproxy/tinyproxy.pid"
 
 #
 # XTinyproxy: Tell Tinyproxy to include the X-Tinyproxy header, which
@@ -320,6 +320,3 @@ ViaProxyName "tinyproxy"
 # If not set then no rewriting occurs.
 #
 #ReverseBaseURL "http://localhost:8888/"
-
-
-