diff --git a/scripts/addToolVersion.sh b/scripts/addToolVersion.sh
index b71ee9ae..876d4e24 100755
--- a/scripts/addToolVersion.sh
+++ b/scripts/addToolVersion.sh
@@ -5,7 +5,12 @@ set -e
 myname="$0"
 
 # Parse the tools' paths configuration
-. "paths.mk"
+# It is expected that this script is only to be run from the
+# source directory of crosstool-NG, so it is trivial to find
+# paths.mk (we can't use  ". paths.mk", as POSIX states that
+# $PATH should be searched for, and $PATH most probably doe
+# not include "."), hence the "./".
+. "./paths.mk"
 
 doHelp() {
     cat <<-EOF
diff --git a/scripts/patch-renumber.sh b/scripts/patch-renumber.sh
index 08ec1beb..3604df57 100755
--- a/scripts/patch-renumber.sh
+++ b/scripts/patch-renumber.sh
@@ -5,7 +5,12 @@ set -e
 myname="$0"
 
 # Parse the tools' paths configuration
-. "paths.mk"
+# It is expected that this script is only to be run from the
+# source directory of crosstool-NG, so it is trivial to find
+# paths.mk (we can't use  ". paths.mk", as POSIX states that
+# $PATH should be searched for, and $PATH most probably doe
+# not include "."), hence the "./".
+. "./paths.mk"
 
 doUsage() {
   cat <<_EOF_