--- /dev/null
+--- apache-couchdb-0.8.1-incubating/configure.ac~ 2008-06-17 01:47:54.000000000 +0300
++++ apache-couchdb-0.8.1-incubating/configure.ac 2008-11-03 14:32:20.470999260 +0200
+@@ -151,7 +151,11 @@
+
+ if test "$use_init" = "yes"; then
+ AC_MSG_CHECKING(location of init directory)
+- if test -d /etc/rc.d; then
++ if test -d /etc/rc.d/init.d; then
++ init_enabled=true
++ AC_SUBST([initdir], ['${sysconfdir}/rc.d/init.d'])
++ AC_MSG_RESULT(${initdir})
++ else if test -d /etc/rc.d; then
+ init_enabled=true
+ AC_SUBST([initdir], ['${sysconfdir}/rc.d'])
+ AC_MSG_RESULT(${initdir})