@@ -647,6 +647,9 @@ jobs:
           Get-ItemProperty -Path $vendors
 
       - name: Smoke test
+        # run from outside the checkout, the dpctl source directory in it
+        # shadows the installed package
+        working-directory: ${{ env.workdir }}\examples
         run: >-
           conda activate ${{ env.EXAMPLES_ENV_NAME }} && python -m dpctl -f
 
 
@@ -872,6 +872,9 @@ jobs:
           $cl_cfg="$env:CONDA_PREFIX\Library\bin\cl.cfg"
           Get-Content -Tail 5 -Path $cl_cfg
       - name: Smoke test
+        # run from outside the checkout, the dpctl source directory in it
+        # shadows the installed package
+        working-directory: ${{ env.workdir }}\examples
         run: >-
           conda activate ${{ env.EXAMPLES_ENV_NAME }} && python -m dpctl -f
       - name: Build and run examples of pybind11 extensions