diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 5de408e61d1e..ac3fee212c4e 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -1033,6 +1033,7 @@ Neil Bowers                    <neilb@neilb.org>
 Neil Watkiss                   <neil.watkiss@sophos.com>
 Neil Williams                  <codehelp@debian.org>
 Nga Tang Chan
+Nic Boet                       <nic@boet.cc>
 Nicholas Clark                 <nick@ccl4.org>
 Nicholas Oxhøj
 Nicholas Perez                 <nperez@cpan.org>
diff --git a/cpan/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/lib/ExtUtils/Command/MM.pm b/cpan/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/lib/ExtUtils/Command/MM.pm
index 89f4c16ded03..d8a0b3b4269f 100644
--- a/cpan/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/lib/ExtUtils/Command/MM.pm
+++ b/cpan/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/lib/ExtUtils/Command/MM.pm
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ sub pod2man {
 
         next if ((-e $man) &&
                  (mtime($man) > mtime($pod)) &&
-                 (mtime($man) > mtime("Makefile")));
+                 (mtime($man) > (mtime("Makefile") // 0)) );
 
         my $parser = Pod::Man->new(%options);
         $parser->parse_from_file($pod, $man)