diff --color -ru a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
--- a/configure.ac	2021-11-12 20:21:54.000000000 +0100
+++ b/configure.ac	2021-12-14 13:47:11.890649552 +0100
@@ -67,10 +67,6 @@
 ["Couldn't find sys/fanotify.h...your kernel might not be new enough"] )])
 AC_CHECK_FUNCS(fexecve, [], [])
 
-AC_CHECK_HEADER(uthash.h, , [AC_MSG_ERROR(
-["Couldn't find uthash.h...uthash-devel is missing"] )])
-
-
 echo .
 echo Checking for required libraries
 AC_CHECK_LIB(udev, udev_device_get_devnode, , [AC_MSG_ERROR([libudev not found])], -ludev)
diff --color -ru a/src/library/rpm-backend.c b/src/library/rpm-backend.c
--- a/src/library/rpm-backend.c	2021-11-12 20:21:54.000000000 +0100
+++ b/src/library/rpm-backend.c	2021-12-14 13:47:26.833926203 +0100
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 #include <rpm/rpmdb.h>
 #include <fnmatch.h>
 
-#include <uthash.h>
+#include "uthash.h"
 
 #include "message.h"
 #include "gcc-attributes.h"
diff --color -ru a/src/Makefile.am b/src/Makefile.am
--- a/src/Makefile.am	2021-11-12 20:21:54.000000000 +0100
+++ b/src/Makefile.am	2021-12-14 13:48:03.218599808 +0100
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@
 	-I${top_srcdir} \
 	-I${top_srcdir}/src/library
 
+AM_CPPFLAGS += \
+	-I${top_srcdir}/uthash-2.3.0/include
+
 sbin_PROGRAMS = fapolicyd fapolicyd-cli
 lib_LTLIBRARIES= libfapolicyd.la