diff --git a/doc/build-unix.txt b/doc/build-unix.txt
index 8e493cf..36fdc8b 100644
--- a/doc/build-unix.txt
+++ b/doc/build-unix.txt
@@ -14,9 +14,10 @@ UNIX BUILD NOTES
 
 To Build
 --------
-
+cd src/leveldb
 chmod +x build_detect_platform
 make clean && make libleveldb.a libmemenv.a
+cd ..
 make -f makefile.unix            # Headless polytimos
 
 See readme-qt.rst for instructions on building Polytimos QT,