diff --git a/lib/pathinfo b/lib/pathinfo
index 4af575603..12e0cb27a 100644
--- a/lib/pathinfo
+++ b/lib/pathinfo
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 # LAPACK    base installation directory of (system) LAPACK Library
 # MSC       base installation directory of MSC.Marc/Mentat
 # FFTW      base installation directory of Fastest Fourier Transform in the West library
-# A relative path (like ./fftw/ in this example) starts from $DAMASK_ROOT/lib/
+# A relative path (./like/this) starts from $DAMASK_ROOT/lib/
 # Do NOT add any trailing /lib/ to the end
 #  of the base installation path---this will be done automatically
 # Out of IMKL, ACML, LAPACK the first defined value is used to access BLAS functionality
@@ -13,5 +13,5 @@
 #IMKL    /opt/intel/composerxe/mkl
 #ACML    /opt/acml4.4.0
 LAPACK  /usr
-FFTW    ./fftw
+FFTW    /usr/local
 MSC     /msc