diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 1b64edd6..cf0b412d 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -547,6 +547,16 @@ if test "$want_perl" != "no"; then
 		PERL_CFLAGS=`$perlpath -MExtUtils::Embed -e ccopts 2>/dev/null`
 	fi
 
+	if test "x$ac_cv_prog_gcc" = "xyes" -a ! `echo $host_os|grep -q 'bsd\|linux'`; then
+		dnl * several systems have Perl compiled with native compiler
+		dnl * but irssi is being compiled with GCC. Here we try to
+		dnl * fix those command line options a bit so GCC won't
+		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 | $perlpath -pe 's/^(.* )?-[^DUIfm][^ ]+/\1/g'`
+	fi
+
 	if test -z "$PERL_CFLAGS"; then
 		if test -n "$perl_check_error"; then
 			perl_check_error="Error getting perl CFLAGS"
diff --git a/src/perl/Makefile.am b/src/perl/Makefile.am
index 293bd80c..16dc55da 100644
--- a/src/perl/Makefile.am
+++ b/src/perl/Makefile.am
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ all-local:
 	  if [ ! -f Makefile ]; then \
             $(perlpath) Makefile.PL $(PERL_MM_PARAMS); \
 	  fi && \
-	  ($(MAKE) || $(MAKE)) && \
+	  ($(MAKE) CC=$(CC) || $(MAKE) CC=$(CC)) && \
 	  cd ..; \
 	done