diff -u a/Makefile b/Makefile
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ ifneq ($(KBUILD_OUTPUT),)
 # check that the output directory actually exists
 saved-output := $(KBUILD_OUTPUT)
 KBUILD_OUTPUT := $(shell mkdir -p $(KBUILD_OUTPUT) && cd $(KBUILD_OUTPUT) \
-								&& /bin/pwd)
+								&& pwd)
 $(if $(KBUILD_OUTPUT),, \
      $(error failed to create output directory "$(saved-output)"))
 
@@ -924,7 +924,7 @@ ifdef CONFIG_BUILD_DOCSRC
 	$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=Documentation
 endif
 ifdef CONFIG_GDB_SCRIPTS
-	$(Q)ln -fsn `cd $(srctree) && /bin/pwd`/scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py
+	$(Q)ln -fsn `cd $(srctree) && pwd`/scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py
 endif
 	+$(call if_changed,link-vmlinux)
 
@@ -1122,7 +1122,7 @@ _modinst_:
 	@rm -rf $(MODLIB)/kernel
 	@rm -f $(MODLIB)/source
 	@mkdir -p $(MODLIB)/kernel
-	@ln -s `cd $(srctree) && /bin/pwd` $(MODLIB)/source
+	@ln -s `cd $(srctree) && pwd` $(MODLIB)/source
 	@if [ ! $(objtree) -ef  $(MODLIB)/build ]; then \
 		rm -f $(MODLIB)/build ; \
 		ln -s $(CURDIR) $(MODLIB)/build ; \