diff --git a/meta/classes/setuptools_build_meta.bbclass b/meta/classes/setuptools_build_meta.bbclass
index 0651cca0a0..18ae2e6004 100644
--- a/meta/classes/setuptools_build_meta.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/setuptools_build_meta.bbclass
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ setuptools_build_meta_do_configure () {
 
 # TODO: ideally this uses pypa/build
 setuptools_build_meta_do_compile () {
-    mkdir -p ${S}/dist
-    nativepython3 -c "from setuptools import build_meta; build_meta.build_wheel('./dist')"
+    nativepython3 -c "from setuptools import build_meta; build_meta.build_wheel('${PIP_INSTALL_DIST_PATH}')"
 }
+do_compile[cleandirs] += "${PIP_INSTALL_DIST_PATH}"
 
 EXPORT_FUNCTIONS do_configure do_compile