diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/Makefile b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/Makefile
index e89b49a3de93..bd01e5fd9143 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/Makefile
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/Makefile
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@
 RELN_ROOT?= ${.CURDIR}/../..
 
 .ifdef NO_LANGCODE_IN_DESTDIR
-DESTDIR?=	${DOCDIR}/relnotes/${.CURDIR:T}
+DESTDIR?=	${DOCDIR}/relnotes
 .else
-DESTDIR?=	${DOCDIR}/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/${.CURDIR:T}
+DESTDIR?=	${DOCDIR}/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes
 .endif
 
 DOC?= article