diff --git a/thirdparty/gdbm/HPKBUILD b/thirdparty/gdbm/HPKBUILD
index 9eac27ec8ade05f7cf0e2578d730341dc9654137..54922a7faa9a60f7578821a4a41419eb35e367f8 100644
--- a/thirdparty/gdbm/HPKBUILD
+++ b/thirdparty/gdbm/HPKBUILD
@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ prepare() {
 
 build() {
     cd $builddir/$ARCH-build
-    ../configure "$@" --host=$host > `pwd`/build.log 2>&1
-    make V=1 -j4 >> `pwd`/build.log 2>&1
+    PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR="${pkgconfigpath}" ../configure "$@" --host=$host > $buildlog 2>&1
+    $MAKE VERBOSE=1 >> $buildlog 2>&1
     ret=$?
     cd $OLDPWD
     return $ret
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ build() {
 
 package() {
     cd $builddir/$ARCH-build
-    make install >> `pwd`/build.log 2>&1
+    $MAKE VERBOSE=1 install >> $buildlog 2>&1
     cd $OLDPWD
     unset host
     if [ $ARCH == "armeabi-v7a" ]