diff --git a/polygerrit-ui/app/BUILD b/polygerrit-ui/app/BUILD
index 580dcd46a8..d7bfe14721 100644
--- a/polygerrit-ui/app/BUILD
+++ b/polygerrit-ui/app/BUILD
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ filegroup(
 genrule(
   name = "polygerrit_ui",
   cmd = " && ".join([
-    "t=$$(mktemp  -d)",
+    "t=$$(mktemp -d || mktemp -d -t bazel-tmp)",
     "p=$$PWD",
     "mkdir -p $$t/polygerrit_ui/{styles,fonts,bower_components/{highlightjs,webcomponentsjs},elements}",
     "cp $(locations :gr-app) $$t/polygerrit_ui/elements/",
diff --git a/tools/bzl/genrule2.bzl b/tools/bzl/genrule2.bzl
index e67ee30710..4408a33ede 100644
--- a/tools/bzl/genrule2.bzl
+++ b/tools/bzl/genrule2.bzl
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 def genrule2(out, cmd, **kwargs):
   cmd = ' && '.join([
     'ROOT=$$PWD',
-    'TMP=$$(mktemp -d)',
+    'TMP=$$(mktemp -d || mktemp -d -t bazel-tmp)',
     '(' + cmd + ')',
   ])
   native.genrule(
diff --git a/tools/bzl/js.bzl b/tools/bzl/js.bzl
index c9e3e6a44d..1525bf3da2 100644
--- a/tools/bzl/js.bzl
+++ b/tools/bzl/js.bzl
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ def _bower_archive(ctx):
     fail("failed %s: %s" % (" ".join(cmd), out.stderr))
 
   _bash(ctx, " && " .join([
-    "TMP=$(mktemp -d )",
+    "TMP=$(mktemp -d || mkdir -d -t bazel-tmp)",
     "cd $TMP",
     "mkdir bower_components",
     "cd bower_components",