1 files changed, 3 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/pod/pod2man.PL b/pod/pod2man.PL
index 20610a84c3..37557bf560 100644
--- a/pod/pod2man.PL
+++ b/pod/pod2man.PL
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 
 use Config;
 use File::Basename qw(&basename &dirname);
-use Cwd;
 
 # List explicitly here the variables you want Configure to
 # generate.  Metaconfig only looks for shell variables, so you
@@ -12,13 +11,11 @@ use Cwd;
 #  $man3ext
 # to ensure Configure will look for $Config{startperl}.
 
-# This forces PL files to create target in same directory as PL file.
-# This is so that make depend always knows where to find PL derivatives.
-$origdir = cwd;
-chdir dirname($0);
-$file = basename($0, '.PL');
+$file = basename($0);
+$file =~ s/\.PL$//i;
 $file .= '.com' if $^O eq 'VMS';
 
+chdir("pod") or die "Can't chdir to pod: $!";
 open OUT,">$file" or die "Can't create $file: $!";
 
 print "Extracting $file (with variable substitutions)\n";
@@ -1234,4 +1231,3 @@ BEGIN {
 close OUT or die "Can't close $file: $!";
 chmod 0755, $file or die "Can't reset permissions for $file: $!\n";
 exec("$Config{'eunicefix'} $file") if $Config{'eunicefix'} ne ':';
-chdir $origdir;