diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/aws-sdk-cpp/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/aws-sdk-cpp/default.nix
index c80abd5f3a0..95041097665 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/aws-sdk-cpp/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/aws-sdk-cpp/default.nix
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
       for i in testing-resources aws-cpp-sdk-*; do
         export ${loaderVar}=$(pwd)/$i:''${${loaderVar}}
       done
+
+      export HOME=$TMPDIR
     '';
 
   NIX_LDFLAGS = lib.concatStringsSep " " (