diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index e623450..c5f8b3b 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,9 +1,15 @@
-all: getpeername
+include config.mak
 
-# requires busybox nc
-test:
-	nc -s 127.1.33.7 -l -p 1234 -e ./getpeername &
-	nc -w 1 127.1.33.7 1234
+PREFIX ?=
+EXEC_PREFIX ?= $(PREFIX)
+BINDIR ?= $(EXEC_PREFIX)/bin
+
+PROGS = getpeername
+
+all: $(PROGS)
+
+install: all
+	install -D -m 0755 $(PROGS) $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)
 
 clean:
-	rm getpeername
+	rm -f $(PROGS)
diff --git a/configure b/configure
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..aee5671
--- /dev/null
+++ b/configure
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+while test -n "$1"; do
+  case "$1" in
+  (--*=*)
+    val=${1#--}
+    name=${val%%=*}
+    val=${val#*=}
+    export "$(printf "%s\n" "$name"|tr '[:lower:]-' '[:upper:]_')=$val"
+    ;;
+  esac
+  shift
+done
+
+(
+  # Variables that the makefile uses and that are meant to be configurable
+  awk '/ \?=/ {print($1)}' Makefile
+  # Variables that GNU Make uses for the implicit rules
+  cat <<EOF
+CC
+CPPFLAGS
+CFLAGS
+LDFLAGS
+LOADLIBES
+LDLIBS
+EOF
+)|sort -u|while read varname; do
+  eval "test -n \"\${$varname+x}\" && echo \${varname}=\${$varname}"
+done|tee config.mak