diff --git a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/technical-details.xml b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/technical-details.xml
index f045b8f552..17840c58f1 100644
--- a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/technical-details.xml
+++ b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/technical-details.xml
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@
             The previous example actually excludes 
             <link linkend='var-WORKDIR'><filename>WORKDIR</filename></link>
             since it is actually constructed as a path within 
-            <link linkend='var-TMPDIR'><filename>TMPDIR</filename></link>, which is on 
+            <filename>TMPDIR</filename>, which is on 
             the whitelist. 
         </para>