diff --git a/locale/scripts/locale_diagnostics.sh b/locale/scripts/locale_diagnostics.sh
index b6b29cc36..616789ce5 100644
--- a/locale/scripts/locale_diagnostics.sh
+++ b/locale/scripts/locale_diagnostics.sh
@@ -3,15 +3,15 @@
 # Report how complete each translation catalog is
 
 # How many messages in total?
-total=$(grep -c '^msgid' "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}/../tenacity.pot")
+total=$(grep -c '^msgid' "../tenacity.pot")
 
 
 declare -i badlines
-for po_file in "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}/../"*.po; do
+for po_file in ../*.po; do
     # If there are errors from msgcmp, then the last line on standard error
     # contains a count of problematic messages; else it won't match the
     # pattern in awk, so assume no errors
-    errors=$(msgcmp "$po_file" "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}/../tenacity.pot" 2>&1 | awk '/msgcmp: found [0-9]* fatal error/ { nn = $3 } END {print 0+nn}')
+    errors=$(msgcmp "$po_file" "../tenacity.pot" 2>&1 | awk '/msgcmp: found [0-9]* fatal error/ { nn = $3 } END {print 0+nn}')
     complete=$((total-errors))
 
     # detect whether this sequence occurs in any .po file.  It will break msgfmt on Windows.