diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 4bd73dc..fb0d845 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -6,5 +6,6 @@
 /node_modules
 /dist
 data/supplementalData.xml
+/scripts/vendor
 /vendor
 .eslintcache
diff --git a/scripts/fetch-language-data.sh b/scripts/fetch-language-data.sh
index f52cf53..ed610b6 100755
--- a/scripts/fetch-language-data.sh
+++ b/scripts/fetch-language-data.sh
@@ -2,8 +2,9 @@
 
 set -o errexit -o nounset -o pipefail
 
-BASEDIR=$(dirname "$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")")")
-DEST="$BASEDIR/src/"
+scriptdir() { perl -MCwd -e 'print Cwd::abs_path shift;' "$1"; }
+BASEDIR=$(dirname "$(dirname "$(scriptdir "$0")")")
+DEST="$BASEDIR/src"
 CLONEDIR="$BASEDIR/vendor/language-data"
 UPSTREAM="https://github.com/wikimedia/language-data.git"
 
@@ -30,4 +31,4 @@ echo "Transforming language-data"
 
 "$BASEDIR"/node_modules/browserify/bin/cmd.js "$CLONEDIR"/data/language-data.json -t "$BASEDIR"/scripts/transform.js -o "$DEST"/jquery.uls.data.js
 
-echo "language-data wrote to $DEST/jquery.uls.data.js"
+echo "language-data written to $DEST/jquery.uls.data.js"