diff --git a/recipes-containers/lxc/lxc_git.bb b/recipes-containers/lxc/lxc_git.bb
index 7b46adbc..5bbfd6ad 100644
--- a/recipes-containers/lxc/lxc_git.bb
+++ b/recipes-containers/lxc/lxc_git.bb
@@ -79,8 +79,7 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[apparmor] = "-Dapparmor=true,-Dapparmor=false,apparmor,apparmor"
 PACKAGECONFIG[templates] = ",,, ${PN}-templates"
 PACKAGECONFIG[selinux] = "-Dselinux=true,-Dselinux=false,libselinux,libselinux"
 PACKAGECONFIG[seccomp] ="-Dseccomp=true,-Dseccomp=false,libseccomp,libseccomp"
-# meson equiv for the unitdir found yet
-# PACKAGECONFIG[systemd] = "--with-systemdsystemunitdir=${systemd_unitdir}/system/,--without-systemdsystemunitdir,systemd,"
+PACKAGECONFIG[systemd] = "-Dsystemd-unitdir=${sysconfdir}/systemd/system/, -Dsystemd-unitdir=, systemd,"
 PACKAGECONFIG[systemd] = "-Dinit-script=systemd,-Dinit-script=sysvinit,systemd,"
 
 # required by python3 to run setup.py