Index: xmlcatalog.c
--- xmlcatalog.c.orig
+++ xmlcatalog.c
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ static char *filename = NULL;
 
 
 #ifndef XML_SGML_DEFAULT_CATALOG
-#define XML_SGML_DEFAULT_CATALOG SYSCONFDIR "/sgml/catalog"
+#define XML_SGML_DEFAULT_CATALOG "/var/db/sgmlcatalog"
 #endif
 
 /************************************************************************