diff --git a/scripts/brp-strip b/scripts/brp-strip
index e7388780b8..76b360b8f8 100755
--- a/scripts/brp-strip
+++ b/scripts/brp-strip
@@ -32,8 +32,9 @@ strip_elf_binaries()
   local nlinks="${1}"
   local nprocs="${2}"
 
-  find "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" -type f \
-    ! -regex "${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/*usr/lib/debug.*" \
+  cd "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" || return 0
+  find . -type f \
+    ! -regex '\./usr/lib/debug.*' \
     ! -name "*.py" ! -name "*.js" ! -name "*.rb" \
     ! -name "*.go" -links "${nlinks}" -print0 | \
     xargs -0 -r -P${nprocs} -n${MAX_ARGS} sh -c "file \"\$@\" | \
diff --git a/scripts/brp-strip-static-archive b/scripts/brp-strip-static-archive
index c10e247ec1..be869fa221 100755
--- a/scripts/brp-strip-static-archive
+++ b/scripts/brp-strip-static-archive
@@ -13,5 +13,6 @@ Darwin*) exit 0 ;;
 esac
 
 # Strip static libraries.
-find "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" -type f \! -regex "${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/*usr/lib/debug.*" -print0 | \
+cd "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" || exit 0
+find . -type f \! -regex '\./usr/lib/debug.*' -print0 | \
     xargs -0 -r -P$NCPUS -n32 sh -c "file \"\$@\" | sed 's/:  */: /' | grep 'current ar archive' | sed -n -e 's/^\(.*\):[  ]*current ar archive/\1/p' | xargs -d '\n' -I\{\} $STRIP -g \{\}" ARG0