diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 56c831cd2..39a90a9ea 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -369,16 +369,6 @@ if test "x$enable_rebuilds" = "xyes" && \
 fi
 AC_SUBST(REBUILD)
 
-# Need full path to Perl for glib-mkenums
-#
-if test "x$PERL" != x ; then
-  AC_PATH_PROG(PERL_PATH, [$PERL])
-fi
-if test "x$PERL_PATH" = x ; then
-  PERL_PATH="/usr/bin/env perl"
-fi
-AC_SUBST(PERL_PATH)
-
 # option to specify python interpreter to use; this just sets $PYTHON, so that
 # we will fallback to reading $PYTHON if --with-python is not given, and
 # python.m4 will get the expected input
diff --git a/win32/gen_util_scripts.py b/win32/gen_util_scripts.py
index a3dfdee65..2ecba4408 100644
--- a/win32/gen_util_scripts.py
+++ b/win32/gen_util_scripts.py
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ def main(argv):
     args = parser.parse_args()
 
     replace_items = {'@PYTHON@': 'python',
-                     '@PERL_PATH@': 'perl',
                      '@GLIB_VERSION@': args.version,
                      '@VERSION@': args.version}
 
diff --git a/win32/setup.py b/win32/setup.py
index ec57dc88e..74e4a1312 100644
--- a/win32/setup.py
+++ b/win32/setup.py
@@ -292,7 +292,6 @@ def main(argv):
 
     #------------ submodule gobject -------------------
     mkenums_vars = ver.copy()
-    mkenums_vars.update({'PERL_PATH': opt.perl})
     process_in(os.path.join(srcroot, 'gobject', 'glib-mkenums.in'),
                os.path.join(srcroot, 'gobject', 'glib-mkenums'),
                mkenums_vars)