diff --git a/WHATS_NEW b/WHATS_NEW
index 87303a548..c1aad0ee1 100644
--- a/WHATS_NEW
+++ b/WHATS_NEW
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 Version 2.02.73 - 
 ================================
+  Fix configure to supply DEFAULT_RUN_DIR to Makefiles.
   Fix wrong number of mirror log at allocate policy
 
 Version 2.02.72 - 28th July 2010  [CVE-2010-2526]
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 056c6dbbc..05d07ca37 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -691,6 +691,7 @@ DM_COMPAT
 DMEVENTD
 DL_LIBS
 DEVMAPPER
+DEFAULT_RUN_DIR
 DEFAULT_LOCK_DIR
 DEFAULT_CACHE_SUBDIR
 DEFAULT_BACKUP_SUBDIR
@@ -18041,6 +18042,7 @@ LVM_LIBAPI=`echo "$VER" | $AWK -F '[()]' '{print $2}'`
 
 
 
+
 
 
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diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index bd5613636..d3df6973f 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -1232,6 +1232,7 @@ AC_SUBST(DEFAULT_ARCHIVE_SUBDIR)
 AC_SUBST(DEFAULT_BACKUP_SUBDIR)
 AC_SUBST(DEFAULT_CACHE_SUBDIR)
 AC_SUBST(DEFAULT_LOCK_DIR)
+AC_SUBST(DEFAULT_RUN_DIR)
 AC_SUBST(DEVMAPPER)
 AC_SUBST(DLM_CFLAGS)
 AC_SUBST(DLM_LIBS)