1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/gtk-doc.bbclass b/meta/classes/gtk-doc.bbclass
index 4e0bd88002..fb7863e99b 100644
--- a/meta/classes/gtk-doc.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/gtk-doc.bbclass
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@
 # packages up any existing documentation (so from tarball builds).
 
 # The documentation directory, where the infrastructure will be copied.
-GTKDOC_DOCDIR ?= "${B}"
+# gtkdocize has a default of "." so to handle out-of-tree builds set this to $S.
+GTKDOC_DOCDIR ?= "${S}"
 
 DEPENDS_append = " gtk-doc-stub-native"