diff --git a/dev-libs/kpathsea/kpathsea-6.3.2_p20200406.ebuild b/dev-libs/kpathsea/kpathsea-6.3.2_p20200406.ebuild
index 8a18b3f69af2c..b473c1a6addad 100644
--- a/dev-libs/kpathsea/kpathsea-6.3.2_p20200406.ebuild
+++ b/dev-libs/kpathsea/kpathsea-6.3.2_p20200406.ebuild
@@ -86,8 +86,8 @@ src_install() {
 	# by texmf-update
 	rm -f "${ED}${TEXMF_PATH}/web2c/fmtutil.cnf"
 
-	dosym /../../../../etc/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf ${TEXMF_PATH}/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
-	dosym /../../../../etc/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf ${TEXMF_PATH}/web2c/texmf.cnf
+	dosym ../../../../etc/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf ${TEXMF_PATH}/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
+	dosym ../../../../etc/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf ${TEXMF_PATH}/web2c/texmf.cnf
 
 	newsbin "${S}/texmf-update" texmf-update