diff --git a/tools/bpf/runqslower/Makefile b/tools/bpf/runqslower/Makefile
index 1e9a34ba98e201284ea66190235b02c07cf8ab34..8a3cbb7e504d4975f07010f39e50d6fb0c38d49b 100644
--- a/tools/bpf/runqslower/Makefile
+++ b/tools/bpf/runqslower/Makefile
@@ -81,5 +81,4 @@ $(BPFOBJ): $(wildcard $(LIBBPF_SRC)/*.[ch] $(LIBBPF_SRC)/Makefile) | $(BPFOBJ_OU
 
 $(DEFAULT_BPFTOOL): $(BPFOBJ) | $(BPFTOOL_OUTPUT)
 	$(Q)$(MAKE) $(submake_extras) -C ../bpftool OUTPUT=$(BPFTOOL_OUTPUT)   \
-		    LIBBPF_OUTPUT=$(BPFOBJ_OUTPUT)			       \
-		    LIBBPF_DESTDIR=$(BPF_DESTDIR) CC=$(HOSTCC) LD=$(HOSTLD)
+		    CC=$(HOSTCC) LD=$(HOSTLD)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile
index 14754141f1ae37b3ebb0ce7857e13c88cee0593f..f3353f7bdedf456efa3da70da836d7a94908ba94 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ DEFAULT_BPFTOOL := $(HOST_SCRATCH_DIR)/sbin/bpftool
 $(OUTPUT)/runqslower: $(BPFOBJ) | $(DEFAULT_BPFTOOL) $(RUNQSLOWER_OUTPUT)
 	$(Q)$(MAKE) $(submake_extras) -C $(TOOLSDIR)/bpf/runqslower	       \
 		    OUTPUT=$(RUNQSLOWER_OUTPUT) VMLINUX_BTF=$(VMLINUX_BTF)     \
-		    BPFTOOL_OUTPUT=$(BUILD_DIR)/bpftool/		       \
+		    BPFTOOL_OUTPUT=$(HOST_BUILD_DIR)/bpftool/		       \
 		    BPFOBJ_OUTPUT=$(BUILD_DIR)/libbpf			       \
 		    BPFOBJ=$(BPFOBJ) BPF_INCLUDE=$(INCLUDE_DIR) &&	       \
 		    cp $(RUNQSLOWER_OUTPUT)runqslower $@