diff -r -u collectd-4.10.1.orig/configure.in collectd-4.10.1/configure.in
--- collectd-4.10.1.orig/configure.in	2010-07-09 12:01:59.000000000 +0200
+++ collectd-4.10.1/configure.in	2010-09-24 20:15:22.666434555 +0200
@@ -2607,11 +2607,13 @@
 then
   SAVE_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
   SAVE_LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS"
+  SAVE_LIBS="$LIBS"
 dnl ARCHFLAGS="" -> disable multi -arch on OSX (see Config_heavy.pl:fetch_string)
   PERL_CFLAGS=`ARCHFLAGS="" $perl_interpreter -MExtUtils::Embed -e ccopts`
   PERL_LDFLAGS=`ARCHFLAGS="" $perl_interpreter -MExtUtils::Embed -e ldopts`
   CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $PERL_CFLAGS"
   LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS $PERL_LDFLAGS"
+  LIBS="$LIBS -lperl"
 
   AC_CACHE_CHECK([for libperl],
     [c_cv_have_libperl],
@@ -2630,7 +2632,10 @@
 			 Nullsv);
       ]]),
       [c_cv_have_libperl="yes"],
-      [c_cv_have_libperl="no"]
+      [ 
+        c_cv_have_libperl="no" 
+        LIBS="$SAVE_LIBS"
+      ]
     )
   )