diff --git a/bin/pt-table-checksum b/bin/pt-table-checksum
index baf2758a..bed76395 100755
--- a/bin/pt-table-checksum
+++ b/bin/pt-table-checksum
@@ -7281,12 +7281,12 @@ The three basic algorithms in descending order of preference are CHECKSUM,
 BIT_XOR and ACCUM.  CHECKSUM cannot be used if any one of these criteria
 is true:
 
-  * L<"--where"> is used.
-  * L<"--since"> is used.
-  * L<"--chunk-size"> is used.
-  * L<"--replicate"> is used.
-  * L<"--count"> is used.
-  * MySQL version less than 4.1.1.
+  * --where is used
+  * --since is used
+  * --chunk-size is used
+  * --replicate is used
+  * --count is used
+  * MySQL version less than 4.1.1
 
 The BIT_XOR algorithm also requires MySQL version 4.1.1 or later.
 
diff --git a/bin/pt-table-sync b/bin/pt-table-sync
index 572e536c..63b1b410 100755
--- a/bin/pt-table-sync
+++ b/bin/pt-table-sync
@@ -9196,11 +9196,11 @@ sanity checks to be performed.  You must specify other options that tell
 pt-table-sync how to resolve conflicts for same but differing rows.
 These options are:
 
-  * L<"--conflict-column">
-  * L<"--conflict-comparison">
-  * L<"--conflict-value">
-  * L<"--conflict-threshold">
-  * L<"--conflict-error">  (optional)
+  * --conflict-column
+  * --conflict-comparison
+  * --conflict-value
+  * --conflict-threshold
+  * --conflict-error">  (optional)
 
 Use L<"--print"> to test this option before L<"--execute">.  The printed
 SQL statements will have comments saying on which host the statement
@@ -9411,13 +9411,13 @@ rows are compared.  Possible comparisons are one of these MAGIC_comparisons:
 
   COMPARISON  CHOOSES ROW WITH
   ==========  =========================================================
-  newest      Newest temporal L<"--conflict-column"> value
-  oldest      Oldest temporal L<"--conflict-column"> value
-  greatest    Greatest numerical L<"--conflict-column"> value
-  least       Least numerical L<"--conflict-column"> value
-  equals      L<"--conflict-column"> value equal to L<"--conflict-value">
-  matches     L<"--conflict-column"> value matching Perl regex pattern
-              L<"--conflict-value">
+  newest      Newest temporal --conflict-column value
+  oldest      Oldest temporal --conflict-column value
+  greatest    Greatest numerical "--conflict-column value
+  least       Least numerical --conflict-column value
+  equals      --conflict-column value equal to --conflict-value
+  matches     --conflict-column value matching Perl regex pattern
+              --conflict-value
 
 This option only works with L<"--bidirectional">.
 See L<"BIDIRECTIONAL SYNCING"> for more information.
diff --git a/bin/pt-visual-explain b/bin/pt-visual-explain
index 6b164f4d..8276f2a5 100755
--- a/bin/pt-visual-explain
+++ b/bin/pt-visual-explain
@@ -2871,10 +2871,10 @@ Set output format.
 
 The default is a terse pretty-printed tree. The valid values are:
 
- value  meaning
- =====  =======
+ Value  Meaning
+ =====  ================================================
  tree   Pretty-printed terse tree.
- dump   Data::Dumper output (see L<Data::Dumper> for more).
+ dump   Data::Dumper output (see Data::Dumper for more).
 
 =item --help
 
diff --git a/util/check-tool b/util/check-tool
index 17df9797..18ee1478 100755
--- a/util/check-tool
+++ b/util/check-tool
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ my @check_subs = (qw(
    check_pod_header_order
    check_pod_formatting
    check_option_usage
+   check_pod_links
 ));
 
 TOOL:
@@ -40,8 +41,13 @@ while ( defined($tool_file = shift @ARGV) ) {
       warn "Cannot open $tool_file: $OS_ERROR";
       next TOOL;
    }
-   
-   ($tool_name) = $tool_file =~ m{/([a-z-]+)$};
+
+   # This make `bin/$ ../util/check-tool *' if . isn't in PATH.
+   if ( $tool_file !~ m{/} ) {
+      $tool_file = "./$tool_file";
+   }
+
+   ($tool_name) = $tool_file =~ m/([a-z-]+)$/;
    if ( !$tool_name ) {
       $exit_status = 1;
       warn "Cannot parse tool name from $tool_file";
@@ -55,6 +61,7 @@ while ( defined($tool_file = shift @ARGV) ) {
       $tool_type = 'perl';
    }
 
+   print '# ', ('#' x (70 - length $tool_name)), " $tool_name\n";
    foreach my $check_sub ( @check_subs ) {
       seek $fh, 0, 0;
       print "# $check_sub ", ('#' x (70 - length $check_sub)), "\n";
@@ -67,6 +74,7 @@ while ( defined($tool_file = shift @ARGV) ) {
          warn "Error while checking $tool_name: $EVAL_ERROR";
       }
    }
+   print "\n\n";
 }
 
 exit $exit_status;
@@ -466,3 +474,24 @@ sub check_option_usage {
 
    return;
 }
+
+sub check_pod_links {
+   my $offset = `cat $tool_file | grep '^=head1 NAME' --byte-offset | cut -d ':' -f 1`;
+   if ( !$offset ) {
+      warn "Cannot find '^=head1 NAME' in $tool_file";
+      return;
+   }
+   chomp $offset;
+   my $pod = `tail -c +$offset $tool_file`;
+   if ( !$pod ) {
+      warn "Failed to parse POD from $tool_file";
+      return;
+   }
+   my @links_in_lit = $pod =~ m/^([ ]+.*L<.+)$/mg;
+   if ( @links_in_lit ) {
+      print "$tool_name has POD links in literal blocks:\n";
+      foreach my $line ( @links_in_lit ) {
+         print "$line\n";
+      }
+   }
+}