diff --git a/crypto/md5/asm/md5-x86_64.pl b/crypto/md5/asm/md5-x86_64.pl
index 4330eddb1..493231401 100755
--- a/crypto/md5/asm/md5-x86_64.pl
+++ b/crypto/md5/asm/md5-x86_64.pl
@@ -109,7 +109,13 @@ EOF
 }
 
 my $output = shift;
-open STDOUT,"| $^X ../perlasm/x86_64-xlate.pl $output";
+
+$0 =~ m/(.*[\/\\])[^\/\\]+$/; my $dir=$1; my $xlate;
+( $xlate="${dir}x86_64-xlate.pl" and -f $xlate ) or
+( $xlate="${dir}../../perlasm/x86_64-xlate.pl" and -f $xlate) or
+die "can't locate x86_64-xlate.pl";
+
+open STDOUT,"| $^X $xlate $output";
 
 $code .= <<EOF;
 .text
diff --git a/crypto/whrlpool/asm/wp-x86_64.pl b/crypto/whrlpool/asm/wp-x86_64.pl
index 385538203..41bf3b202 100644
--- a/crypto/whrlpool/asm/wp-x86_64.pl
+++ b/crypto/whrlpool/asm/wp-x86_64.pl
@@ -31,7 +31,13 @@
 # operand.
 
 $output=shift;
-open STDOUT,"| $^X ../perlasm/x86_64-xlate.pl $output";
+
+$0 =~ m/(.*[\/\\])[^\/\\]+$/; my $dir=$1; my $xlate;
+( $xlate="${dir}x86_64-xlate.pl" and -f $xlate ) or
+( $xlate="${dir}../../perlasm/x86_64-xlate.pl" and -f $xlate) or
+die "can't locate x86_64-xlate.pl";
+
+open STDOUT,"| $^X $xlate $output";
 
 sub L() { $code.=".byte	".join(',',@_)."\n"; }
 sub LL(){ $code.=".byte	".join(',',@_).",".join(',',@_)."\n"; }
diff --git a/crypto/x86_64cpuid.pl b/crypto/x86_64cpuid.pl
index a8049def1..18a286703 100644
--- a/crypto/x86_64cpuid.pl
+++ b/crypto/x86_64cpuid.pl
@@ -99,7 +99,9 @@ OPENSSL_wipe_cpu:
 
 ___
 
-open STDOUT,"| $^X perlasm/x86_64-xlate.pl $output";
+$0 =~ m/(.*[\/\\])[^\/\\]+$/; $dir=$1;
+open STDOUT,"| $^X $dir/perlasm/x86_64-xlate.pl $output";
+
 print<<___;
 .text