diff -ur xfce-utils-4.8.1.orig/scripts/Makefile.am xfce-utils-4.8.1/scripts/Makefile.am
--- xfce-utils-4.8.1.orig/scripts/Makefile.am	2011-01-30 17:39:30.000000000 +0100
+++ xfce-utils-4.8.1/scripts/Makefile.am	2011-04-18 13:53:15.000000000 +0200
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 # cannot be set from configure, because ${prefix} is not expanded
 edit = sed \
 	-e "s,@_datadir_\@,$(datadir),g" \
+	-e "s,@_docroot_\@,$$(dirname $(docdir)),g" \
 	-e "s,@_libdir_\@,$(libdir),g" \
 	-e "s,@_sysconfdir_\@,$(sysconfdir),g" \
 	-e "s,@BROWSER_DEFAULT\@,@BROWSER_DEFAULT@,g" \
diff -ur xfce-utils-4.8.1.orig/scripts/xfhelp4.in xfce-utils-4.8.1/scripts/xfhelp4.in
--- xfce-utils-4.8.1.orig/scripts/xfhelp4.in	2011-01-30 17:39:30.000000000 +0100
+++ xfce-utils-4.8.1/scripts/xfhelp4.in	2011-04-18 13:05:34.000000000 +0200
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 #  Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
 #
 
-HELP_DIR="@_datadir_@/doc"
+HELP_DIR="@_docroot_@"
 
 if [ ! x"$1" = x"" ]; then
     MODULE="${1%.html}"