diff --git a/program/bindings/perl-shared/Makefile.PL b/program/bindings/perl-shared/Makefile.PL
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+use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;
+use Config;
+# See lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm for details of how to influence
+# the contents of the Makefile that is written.
+
+# Specify the location of the archive containing PIC compiled object files.
+my $librrd = "-L../../src/.libs/ -lrrd_private" ;
+
+WriteMakefile(
+ 'NAME' => 'RRDs',
+ 'VERSION_FROM' => 'RRDs.pm', # finds $VERSION
+ 'DEFINE' => "-DPERLPATCHLEVEL=$Config{PATCHLEVEL}",
+ 'INC' => '-I../../src -I../../libraries/gd1.3',
+ # where to look for the necessary libraries
+ # Perl will figure out which one is valid
+ 'depend' => {'RRDs.c' => "../../src/.libs/librrd_private.a"},
+ 'dynamic_lib' => {'OTHERLDFLAGS' => "$librrd -lm"},
+ 'realclean' => {FILES => 't/demo?.rrd t/demo?.gif' }
+);