diff --git a/.ldrelease/build-docs.sh b/.ldrelease/build-docs.sh
index 9db4ea7..bbafab2 100755
--- a/.ldrelease/build-docs.sh
+++ b/.ldrelease/build-docs.sh
@@ -4,8 +4,11 @@ set -e
 
 # This only runs in the Linux build, since the docs are the same for all platforms.
 
-mkdir tmp
-cp launchdarkly-server-sdk.c tmp/
-cp launchdarkly-server-sdk-redis.c tmp/
+# LD_RELEASE_TEMP_DIR is guaranteed to be empty, and will not be checked into version control.
+DOCS_BUILD_DIR="$LD_RELEASE_TEMP_DIR/docs"
+mkdir "$DOCS_BUILD_DIR"
 
-ldoc -d ${LD_RELEASE_DOCS_DIR} tmp
+cp launchdarkly-server-sdk.c "$DOCS_BUILD_DIR"
+cp launchdarkly-server-sdk-redis.c "$DOCS_BUILD_DIR"
+
+ldoc -d "$LD_RELEASE_DOCS_DIR" "$DOCS_BUILD_DIR"