diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 97c97802..f9e78dfd 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -554,7 +554,10 @@ if test "$want_perl" != "no"; then
 		dnl * complain about them. Normally there's only few options
 		dnl * that we want to keep:
 		dnl * -Ddefine -Uundef -I/path -fopt -mopt
-		PERL_CFLAGS=`echo $PERL_CFLAGS | $perlpath -pe 's/^(.* )?-[^DUIfm][^ ]+/\1/g'`
+		PERL_CFLAGS=`echo $PERL_CFLAGS | $perlpath -pe 's/^(.* )?-[^DUIfm][^ ]+/\1/g; s/^(.* )?\+[^ ]+/\1/g'`
+
+		PERL_EXTRA_OPTS="CCCDLFLAGS=\"-fPIC\""
+		AC_SUBST(PERL_EXTRA_OPTS)
 	fi
 
 	if test -z "$PERL_CFLAGS"; then