diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
index 9a6210b83b..d6f2c0ed62 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2013-04-06  Jan Kratochvil  <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
+
+	* Makefile.in (POD2MAN1, POD2MAN5): Replace $(VERSION) by ../version.in.
+
 2013-04-06  Jan Kratochvil  <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
 	    Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@gnu.org>
 
diff --git a/gdb/doc/Makefile.in b/gdb/doc/Makefile.in
index b016740527..c3c5130bde 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/Makefile.in
+++ b/gdb/doc/Makefile.in
@@ -172,9 +172,9 @@ TEXI2POD = perl $(srcdir)/../../etc/texi2pod.pl \
 		$(MAKEINFOFLAGS) $(MAKEINFO_EXTRA_FLAGS)
 
 POD2MAN1 = pod2man --center="GNU Development Tools" \
-		   --release="gdb-$(VERSION)" --section=1
+		   --release="gdb-`sed q $(srcdir)/../version.in`" --section=1
 POD2MAN5 = pod2man --center="GNU Development Tools" \
-		   --release="gdb-$(VERSION)" --section=5
+		   --release="gdb-`sed q $(srcdir)/../version.in`" --section=5
 
 # List of man pages generated from gdb.texi
 MAN1S = gdb.1 gdbserver.1