diff --git scripts/Makefile.am scripts/Makefile.am
index ee8fb8717..f62352630 100644
--- scripts/Makefile.am
+++ scripts/Makefile.am
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ export INSTALL_UDEV_RULE_DIR=$(udevruledir)
 export INSTALL_MOUNT_HELPER_DIR=$(mounthelperdir)
 export INSTALL_SYSCONF_DIR=$(sysconfdir)
 export INSTALL_PYTHON_DIR=$(pythonsitedir)
+export INSTALL_PKGDATA_DIR=$(pkgdatadir)
 
 export KMOD_SPL=$(abs_top_builddir)/module/spl.ko
 export KMOD_ZFS=$(abs_top_builddir)/module/zfs.ko
diff --git scripts/zfs-helpers.sh scripts/zfs-helpers.sh
index 8dcb06301..b45384a9a 100755
--- scripts/zfs-helpers.sh
+++ scripts/zfs-helpers.sh
@@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ if [ "${INSTALL}" = "yes" ]; then
 		install "$UDEV_RULE_DIR/$rule" "$INSTALL_UDEV_RULE_DIR/$rule"
 	done
 	install "$ZPOOL_SCRIPT_DIR"              "$INSTALL_SYSCONF_DIR/zfs/zpool.d"
+	install "$ZPOOL_COMPAT_DIR"              "$INSTALL_PKGDATA_DIR/compatibility.d"
 	install "$CONTRIB_DIR/pyzfs/libzfs_core" "$INSTALL_PYTHON_DIR/libzfs_core"
 	# Ideally we would install these in the configured ${libdir}, which is
 	# by default "/usr/local/lib and unfortunately not included in the
@@ -179,6 +180,7 @@ else
 	remove "$INSTALL_UDEV_RULE_DIR/69-vdev.rules"
 	remove "$INSTALL_UDEV_RULE_DIR/90-zfs.rules"
 	remove "$INSTALL_SYSCONF_DIR/zfs/zpool.d"
+	remove "$INSTALL_PKGDATA_DIR/compatibility.d"
 	remove "$INSTALL_PYTHON_DIR/libzfs_core"
 	remove "/lib/libzfs_core.so"
 	remove "/lib/libnvpair.so"