diff -Naur surfraw-2.2.9-orig/configure.in surfraw-2.2.9/configure.in
--- surfraw-2.2.9-orig/configure.in	2013-12-10 18:07:06.000000000 +0100
+++ surfraw-2.2.9/configure.in	2017-12-17 22:19:14.648432687 +0100
@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@
 dnl Checks for programs.
 AC_PROG_INSTALL
 AC_PROG_AWK
+AC_PATH_PROG([PERL], [perl], [perl])
+AC_SUBST(PERL)
 
 AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile surfraw.lsm surfraw.spec elvi/Makefile test/Makefile examples/Makefile])
 AC_OUTPUT
diff -Naur surfraw-2.2.9-orig/Makefile.am surfraw-2.2.9/Makefile.am
--- surfraw-2.2.9-orig/Makefile.am	2013-12-10 18:07:06.000000000 +0100
+++ surfraw-2.2.9/Makefile.am	2017-12-17 22:13:48.205031190 +0100
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
 	sed -e 's,@VERSION\@,${VERSION},g; '\
 	    -e 's,@ELVIDIR\@,${ELVIDIR},g; '\
 	    -e 's,@AWK\@,${AWK},g; '\
+	    -e 's,@PERL\@,${PERL},g; '\
 	    -e 's,@sysconfdir\@,${sysconfdir},g ' $? > $@.tmp
 	chmod +x $@.tmp
 	mv $@.tmp $@
diff -Naur surfraw-2.2.9-orig/surfraw.IN surfraw-2.2.9/surfraw.IN
--- surfraw-2.2.9-orig/surfraw.IN	2013-12-10 18:07:06.000000000 +0100
+++ surfraw-2.2.9/surfraw.IN	2017-12-17 22:14:01.613171144 +0100
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@
 
 quote_ifs () {
 	 if [ -z "$1" ];   then return;  fi
-     perl -e '$ifs=$ENV{IFS} || " "; $arg=shift;if($arg =~/[$ifs]/) { $arg="\"$arg\""; } print "$arg\n"; ' -- "$1"
+     @PERL@ -e '$ifs=$ENV{IFS} || " "; $arg=shift;if($arg =~/[$ifs]/) { $arg="\"$arg\""; } print "$arg\n"; ' -- "$1"
 }
 
 bookmark_file_search () {