Documentation/.gitignore | 2 +-
 Documentation/include.mk | 3 ---
 Makefile.PL              | 6 +++---

diff --git a/Documentation/.gitignore b/Documentation/.gitignore
index f26169acb7be071a4d61cbb99068a7bc7ba02ef8..925100394eab0588b453bf7b7648d3a0b4d7a34a 100644
--- a/Documentation/.gitignore
+++ b/Documentation/.gitignore
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 /public-inbox-*.txt
 /public-inbox.cgi.txt
 /standards.txt
-/.x
+/.*.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/include.mk b/Documentation/include.mk
index 41de0a7277e3c38ab28cb0c5ac55c86626bf43d7..8c5f3ca8375eea59ab0af7dcc97cf7ecbfc2d894 100644
--- a/Documentation/include.mk
+++ b/Documentation/include.mk
@@ -89,9 +89,6 @@ 	>$@
 
 html: $(docs_html)
 
-Documentation/.x:
-	mkdir -p $@
-
 doc: $(docs)
 
 %.gz: %
diff --git a/Makefile.PL b/Makefile.PL
index 598741706041302a7b887df28441d3603809a81e..8f1bc4b413b7d340e629522b07f690dcb61a80a8 100644
--- a/Makefile.PL
+++ b/Makefile.PL
@@ -71,10 +71,10 @@
 # external manpages which we host ourselves, since some packages
 # (currently just Xapian) doesn't host manpages themselves.
 my @xman = qw(copydatabase.1 xapian-compact.1);
-$v->{xdocs} = [ map { "Documentation/.x/.$_.txt" } @xman ];
-$v->{xdocs_html} = [ map { "Documentation/.x/.$_.html" } @xman ];
+$v->{xdocs} = [ map { "Documentation/.$_.txt" } @xman ];
+$v->{xdocs_html} = [ map { "Documentation/.$_.html" } @xman ];
 for (@{$v->{xdocs}}) {
-	$t->{"$_ : | Documentation/.x"} = [
+	$t->{"$_:"} = [
 		'$(PERL) -w Documentation/extman.perl $@ >$@+',
 		'mv $@+ $@'
 	];