diff --git a/redis.spec b/redis.spec
index 82f04f8..0c112cf 100644
--- a/redis.spec
+++ b/redis.spec
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ Source:         http://redis.googlecode.com/files/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 Patch0:         %{name}-initscript.patch
 # for init script
 Requires:       netcat-openbsd
+BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 
 %description
 Redis is an advanced key-value store. It is similar to memcached but the dataset