diff --git a/test/iscsi_tgt/ext4test/ext4test.sh b/test/iscsi_tgt/ext4test/ext4test.sh
index bbbbb49b6..d289e4de6 100755
--- a/test/iscsi_tgt/ext4test/ext4test.sh
+++ b/test/iscsi_tgt/ext4test/ext4test.sh
@@ -90,10 +90,11 @@ for dev in $devs; do
 	mkdir -p /mnt/${dev}dir
 	mount -o sync /dev/$dev /mnt/${dev}dir
 
-	rsync -qav --exclude=".git" --exclude="dpdk" $rootdir/ /mnt/${dev}dir/spdk
+	rsync -qav --exclude=".git" $rootdir/ /mnt/${dev}dir/spdk
 
-	make -C /mnt/${dev}dir/spdk DPDK_DIR=$DPDK_DIR clean
-	make -C /mnt/${dev}dir/spdk DPDK_DIR=$DPDK_DIR -j16
+	make -C /mnt/${dev}dir/spdk clean
+	(cd /mnt/${dev}dir/spdk && ./configure $config_params)
+	make -C /mnt/${dev}dir/spdk -j16
 
 	# Print out space consumed on target device to help decide
 	#  if/when we need to increase the size of the malloc LUN