diff --git a/bin/ebuild b/bin/ebuild
index 3eaea94..61c5fd9 100755
--- a/bin/ebuild
+++ b/bin/ebuild
@@ -112,7 +112,8 @@ if pf is None:
 	sys.exit(1)
 
 if not os.path.isabs(ebuild):
-	mycwd = os.getcwd()
+	import os as os_real
+	mycwd = os_real.getcwd()
 	# Try to get the non-canonical path from the PWD evironment variable, since
 	# the canonical path returned from os.getcwd() may may be unusable in
 	# cases where the directory stucture is built from symlinks.