diff --git a/macros.zig b/macros.zig
index 3fc6792..8f43673 100644
--- a/macros.zig
+++ b/macros.zig
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 %zig %{_bindir}/zig
 
-%_zig_cache_dir %{builddir}/zig-cache
+%_zig_cache_dir %{_vpath_builddir}/zig-cache
 %_zig_package_dir %{_zig_cache_dir}/p
 
 # expected features for each arch when targeting baseline
diff --git a/zig.spec b/zig.spec
index 2a566b7..378fb17 100644
--- a/zig.spec
+++ b/zig.spec
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 %bcond macro     %{without bootstrap}
 %bcond test      1
 
-%global zig_cache_dir %{builddir}/zig-cache
+%global zig_cache_dir %{_vpath_builddir}/zig-cache
 
 %global zig_build_options %{shrink: \
     --verbose \