diff --git a/infra/config/recipes.cfg b/infra/config/recipes.cfg
index e124234b2f..a54cdcfbcb 100644
--- a/infra/config/recipes.cfg
+++ b/infra/config/recipes.cfg
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
   "deps": {
     "recipe_engine": {
       "branch": "master",
-      "revision": "e90c11af854574dd68edd0e7c7a5e04ceb49ffd0",
+      "revision": "497f5b7f92cea8e5273d56cc3cba876fb18b42d9",
       "url": "https://chromium.googlesource.com/external/github.com/luci/recipes-py.git"
     }
   },
diff --git a/recipes/recipes.py b/recipes/recipes.py
index 9d8a876607..7215a06066 100755
--- a/recipes/recipes.py
+++ b/recipes/recipes.py
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ def main():
 
   repo_root = os.path.abspath(
     _git_output(['rev-parse', '--show-toplevel'],
-                cwd=os.path.dirname(__file__)).strip())
+                cwd=os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))).strip())
 
   # TODO(iannucci): Actually make the location of recipes.cfg configurable.
   recipes_cfg_path = os.path.join(repo_root, 'infra', 'config', 'recipes.cfg')