diff --git a/.lldbinit b/.lldbinit
index b5cc7e7f11a4..5284f42ac72d 100644
--- a/.lldbinit
+++ b/.lldbinit
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 # you are either running lldb from the top level source directory, the objdir,
 # or the dist/bin directory.  (.lldbinit files in the objdir and dist/bin set
 # topsrcdir appropriately.)
-script topsrcdir = topsrcdir if locals().has_key("topsrcdir") else "."; sys.path.append(os.path.join(topsrcdir, "python/lldbutils")); import lldbutils; lldbutils.init()
+script topsrcdir = topsrcdir if locals().has_key("topsrcdir") else os.getcwd(); sys.path.append(os.path.join(topsrcdir, "python/lldbutils")); import lldbutils; lldbutils.init()
 
 # Mozilla's use of UNIFIED_SOURCES to include multiple source files into a
 # single compiled file breaks lldb breakpoint setting. This works around that.