diff --git a/scripts/setup-adapters.sh b/scripts/setup-adapters.sh
index 795f29fbaf959..2feb38290da7c 100755
--- a/scripts/setup-adapters.sh
+++ b/scripts/setup-adapters.sh
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ function install_azure-storage-sdk-cpp {
 
 function install_hdfs_deps {
   github_checkout apache/hawq master
-  libhdfs3_dir=hawq/depends/libhdfs3
+  libhdfs3_dir=$DEPENDENCY_DIR/hawq/depends/libhdfs3
   if [[ "$OSTYPE" == darwin* ]]; then
      sed -i '' -e "/FIND_PACKAGE(GoogleTest REQUIRED)/d" $libhdfs3_dir/CMakeLists.txt
      sed -i '' -e "s/dumpversion/dumpfullversion/" $libhdfs3_dir/CMakeLists.txt