1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/lib/libcrypto/util/clean-depend.pl b/src/lib/libcrypto/util/clean-depend.pl
index 6c485d1e2f..2b2bdb4048 100644
--- a/src/lib/libcrypto/util/clean-depend.pl
+++ b/src/lib/libcrypto/util/clean-depend.pl
@@ -37,8 +37,11 @@ foreach $file (sort keys %files) {
     $file=~s/^\.\///;
     push @{$files{$file}},$origfile;
     my $prevdep="";
-    foreach $dep (sort @{$files{$file}}) {
-        $dep=~s/^\.\///;
+
+    # Remove leading ./ before sorting
+    my @deps = map { $_ =~ s/^\.\///; $_ } @{$files{$file}};
+
+    foreach $dep (sort @deps) {
         next if $prevdep eq $dep; # to exterminate duplicates...
         $prevdep = $dep;
         $len=0 if $len+length($dep)+1 >= 80;