diff --git a/tools/build/makeshorewall b/tools/build/makeshorewall
index 04546dbf2..68da11995 100644
--- a/tools/build/makeshorewall
+++ b/tools/build/makeshorewall
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ STYLESHEET=/usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/nwalsh/current/xhtml/docbook.xsl
 # Directory where the build log will be placed. The log has the name
 # shorewall_build_<version>.log
 #
-LOGDIR=.
+LOGDIR=$PWD
 #
 # Your RPM build directory
 #