diff --git a/cmake/modules/CMakeLists.txt b/cmake/modules/CMakeLists.txt
index 444575e5d..e28220db6 100644
--- a/cmake/modules/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/cmake/modules/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # link against them. LLVM calls its version of this file LLVMExports.cmake, but
 # the usual CMake convention seems to be ${Project}Targets.cmake.
 set(CLING_INSTALL_PACKAGE_DIR lib${LLVM_LIBDIR_SUFFIX}/cmake/cling)
-set(cling_cmake_builddir "${LLVM_BINARY_DIR}/${CLING_INSTALL_PACKAGE_DIR}")
+set(cling_cmake_builddir "${CLING_BINARY_DIR}/${CLING_INSTALL_PACKAGE_DIR}")
 
 # Keep this in sync with llvm/cmake/CMakeLists.txt!
 set(LLVM_INSTALL_PACKAGE_DIR lib${LLVM_LIBDIR_SUFFIX}/cmake/llvm)