diff --git a/modules/libusb b/modules/libusb
index a6d00eae..f9209c46 100644
--- a/modules/libusb
+++ b/modules/libusb
@@ -10,13 +10,14 @@ libusb_hash := 7dce9cce9a81194b7065ee912bcd55eeffebab694ea403ffb91b67db66b1824b
 libusb_configure := ./configure \
 	CC="$(heads_cc)" \
 	--host i386-elf-linux \
-	--prefix "$(INSTALL)" \
+	--prefix "/" \
 	--disable-udev \
 
 # Run one build to generate the executables with the pre-defined
 # exec_prefix and datarootdir, then a second make to install the binaries
 # into our actual target location
 libusb_target := $(MAKE_JOBS) \
+	DESTDIR="$(INSTALL)" \
 	install \
 
 libusb_libraries := libusb/.libs/libusb-1.0.so.0
diff --git a/modules/libusb-compat b/modules/libusb-compat
index fe859cf0..e3d960b2 100644
--- a/modules/libusb-compat
+++ b/modules/libusb-compat
@@ -12,15 +12,16 @@ libusb-compat_hash := 404ef4b6b324be79ac1bfb3d839eac860fbc929e6acb1ef88793a6ea32
 libusb-compat_configure := ./configure \
 	CC="$(heads_cc)" \
 	--host i386-elf-linux \
-	--prefix "$(INSTALL)" \
+	--prefix "/" \
 	PKG_CONFIG=/bin/false \
 	LIBUSB_1_0_CFLAGS="-I$(INSTALL)/include/libusb-1.0" \
-	LIBUSB_1_0_LIBS="-L$(INSTALL)/lib -lusb-1.0" \
+	LIBUSB_1_0_LIBS="$(INSTALL)/libusb-1.0.so" \
 
 # Run one build to generate the executables with the pre-defined
 # exec_prefix and datarootdir, then a second make to install the binaries
 # into our actual target location
 libusb-compat_target := $(MAKE_JOBS) \
+	DESTDIR="$(INSTALL)" \
 	install \
 
 libusb-compat_libraries := libusb/.libs/libusb-0.1.so.4
diff --git a/modules/lvm2 b/modules/lvm2
index d8f06d89..b460a0bd 100644
--- a/modules/lvm2
+++ b/modules/lvm2
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ lvm2_configure := \
 	ac_cv_func_realloc_0_nonnull=yes \
 	./configure \
 	--host i386-elf-linux \
-	--prefix $(INSTALL) \
+	--prefix "/" \
 	--disable-selinux \
 	--disable-udev-systemd-background-jobs \
 	--disable-realtime \
@@ -27,7 +27,12 @@ lvm2_configure := \
 # not sure why LIB_SUFFIX is not defined in the cross build
 lvm2_target := \
 	$(MAKE_JOBS) \
-	all install_device-mapper \
+	all \
+	&& \
+	$(MAKE) \
+	-C $(build)/$(lvm2_dir) \
+	DESTDIR="$(INSTALL)" \
+	install_device-mapper \
 
 lvm2_libraries := libdm/libdevmapper.so.1.02
 
diff --git a/modules/pciutils b/modules/pciutils
index 96ea3ac1..830927b8 100644
--- a/modules/pciutils
+++ b/modules/pciutils
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ pciutils_target := \
 	ZLIB=no \
 	HWDB=no \
 	SHARED=yes \
-	IDSDIR=/ \
-	PREFIX=$(INSTALL) \
+	IDSDIR="/" \
+	PREFIX="/" \
 	&& \
 	$(MAKE) \
 	-C $(build)/$(pciutils_dir) \
@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@ pciutils_target := \
 	ZLIB=no \
 	HWDB=no \
 	SHARED=yes \
-	PREFIX=$(INSTALL) \
+	PREFIX="/" \
+	DESTDIR="$(INSTALL)" \
 	install \
 	install-lib \