diff --git a/src/bin/download-builtin-keycloak-theme.ts b/src/bin/download-builtin-keycloak-theme.ts
index d6e8d6ba..b5e190ef 100644
--- a/src/bin/download-builtin-keycloak-theme.ts
+++ b/src/bin/download-builtin-keycloak-theme.ts
@@ -182,9 +182,10 @@ export async function downloadBuiltinKeycloakTheme(params: { keycloakVersion: st
                         );
                     }
 
-                    // Note, this is an optimization for reducing the size of the jar
+                    // Note, this is an optimization for reducing the size of the jar,
+                    // For this version we know exactly which resources are used.
                     {
-                        const nodeModulesDirPath = pathJoin(destDirPath, "keycloak", "common", "resources");
+                        const nodeModulesDirPath = pathJoin(destDirPath, "keycloak", "common", "resources", "node_modules");
 
                         const usedCommonResourceRelativeFilePaths = [
                             ...["patternfly.min.css", "patternfly-additions.min.css", "patternfly-additions.min.css"].map(fileBasename =>
diff --git a/src/bin/tools/transformCodebase.ts b/src/bin/tools/transformCodebase.ts
index fad6c983..57aa41f2 100644
--- a/src/bin/tools/transformCodebase.ts
+++ b/src/bin/tools/transformCodebase.ts
@@ -17,13 +17,14 @@ type TransformSourceCode = (params: { sourceCode: Buffer; filePath: string; file
  * */
 export function transformCodebase(params: { srcDirPath: string; destDirPath: string; transformSourceCode?: TransformSourceCode }) {
     const { srcDirPath, transformSourceCode } = params;
-    let { destDirPath } = params;
 
-    const isTargetSameAsSource = path.relative(srcDirPath, destDirPath) === "";
+    const isTargetSameAsSource = path.relative(srcDirPath, params.destDirPath) === "";
 
-    if (isTargetSameAsSource) {
-        destDirPath = path.join(srcDirPath, "..", "tmp_xOsPdkPsTdzPs34sOkHs");
-    }
+    const destDirPath = isTargetSameAsSource ? path.join(srcDirPath, "..", "tmp_xOsPdkPsTdzPs34sOkHs") : params.destDirPath;
+
+    fs.mkdirSync(destDirPath, {
+        "recursive": true
+    });
 
     for (const fileRelativePath of crawl({ "dirPath": srcDirPath, "returnedPathsType": "relative to dirPath" })) {
         const filePath = path.join(srcDirPath, fileRelativePath);