diff --git a/Config.in b/Config.in
index 9897a1754c..cc83a6aff5 100644
--- a/Config.in
+++ b/Config.in
@@ -69,13 +69,13 @@ config BR2_TAR_OPTIONS
 
 config BR2_DL_DIR
 	string "Download dir"
-	default "$(BASE_DIR)/dl"
+	default "$(TOPDIR)/dl"
 	help
 	  Directory to store all the source files that we need to fetch.
 	  If the Linux shell environment has defined the BUILDROOT_DL_DIR
 	  environment variable, then this overrides this configuration item.
 
-	  The default is $(BASE_DIR)/dl
+	  The default is $(TOPDIR)/dl
 
 config BR2_COPYTO
 	string "Copy result to..."