diff --git a/package/asterisk/asterisk.mk b/package/asterisk/asterisk.mk
index 28b85da562..f2f210b524 100644
--- a/package/asterisk/asterisk.mk
+++ b/package/asterisk/asterisk.mk
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ ASTERISK_CONF_OPTS = \
 	--with-libxml2 \
 	--with-ncurses="$(STAGING_DIR)/usr" \
 	--with-sqlite3="$(STAGING_DIR)/usr" \
-	--with-sounds-cache=$(BR2_DL_DIR)
+	--with-sounds-cache=$(ASTERISK_DL_DIR)
 
 # avcodec are from ffmpeg. There is virtually zero chance this could
 # even work; asterisk is looking for ffmpeg/avcodec.h which has not