diff a/bindings/perl-shared/Makefile.PL b/bindings/perl-shared/Makefile.PL
--- a/bindings/perl-shared/Makefile.PL
+++ b/bindings/perl-shared/Makefile.PL
@@ -3,27 +3,7 @@ use Config;
# See lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm for details of how to influence
# the contents of the Makefile that is written.
-# if the last argument when calling Makefile.PL is RPATH=/... and ... is the
-# path to librrd.so then the Makefile will be written such that RRDs.so knows
-# where to find librrd.so later on ...
my $R="";
-if ($ARGV[-1] =~ /RPATH=(\S+)/){
- pop @ARGV;
- my $rp = $1;
- for ($^O){
- /linux/ && do{ $R = "-Wl,--rpath -Wl,$rp"};
- /hpux/ && do{ $R = "+b$rp"};
- /solaris/ && do{ $R = "-R$rp"};
- /bsd/ && do{ $R = "-R$rp"};
- /aix/ && do{ $R = "-Wl,-blibpath:$rp"};
- }
-}
-
-# darwin works without this because librrd contains its
-# install_name which will includes the final location of the
-# library after it is installed. This install_name gets transfered
-# to the perl shared object.
-
my $librrd;
if ($^O eq 'darwin'){
$librrd = '-lrrd';