diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/liburing/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/liburing/default.nix
index e0297812209..1839c0ec187 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/liburing/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/liburing/default.nix
@@ -14,24 +14,32 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   separateDebugInfo = true;
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
-
-  outputs = [ "out" "lib" "dev" "man" ];
-
-  configurePhase = ''
-    ./configure \
-      --prefix=$out \
-      --includedir=$dev/include \
-      --libdir=$lib/lib \
-      --mandir=$man/share/man \
+  # Upstream's configure script is not autoconf generated, but a hand written one.
+  setOutputFlags = false;
+  preConfigure =
+    # We cannot use configureFlags or configureFlagsArray directly, since we
+    # don't have structuredAttrs yet and using placeholder causes permissions
+    # denied errors. Using $dev / $man in configureFlags causes bash evaluation
+    # errors
+  ''
+    configureFlagsArray+=(
+      "--includedir=$dev/include"
+      "--mandir=$man/share/man"
+    )
   '';
 
-  # Copy the examples into $out.
-  postInstall = ''
-    mkdir -p $out/bin
-    cp ./examples/io_uring-cp examples/io_uring-test $out/bin
-    cp ./examples/link-cp $out/bin/io_uring-link-cp
-    cp ./examples/ucontext-cp $out/bin/io_uring-ucontext-cp
-  '';
+  outputs = [ "out" "bin" "dev" "man" ];
+
+  postInstall =
+  # Copy the examples into $bin. Most reverse dependency of this package should
+  # reference only the $out output
+  ''
+    mkdir -p $bin/bin
+    cp ./examples/io_uring-cp examples/io_uring-test $bin/bin
+    cp ./examples/link-cp $bin/bin/io_uring-link-cp
+    cp ./examples/ucontext-cp $bin/bin/io_uring-ucontext-cp
+  ''
+  ;
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "Userspace library for the Linux io_uring API";