diff --git a/sys-apps/groff/groff-1.20.1.recipe b/sys-apps/groff/groff-1.20.1.recipe
index bd7da6844..66cbd7eb0 100644
--- a/sys-apps/groff/groff-1.20.1.recipe
+++ b/sys-apps/groff/groff-1.20.1.recipe
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ SRC_URI="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/groff/groff-1.20.1.tar.gz"
 CHECKSUM_MD5="48fa768dd6fdeb7968041dd5ae8e2b02"
 LICENSE="GNU GPL v3"
 COPYRIGHT="2003-2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."
-REVISION="2"
+REVISION="3"
 ARCHITECTURES="x86_gcc2 x86 x86_64"
 
 PROVIDES="
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ BUILD()
 	aclocal -I m4
 	autoconf
 	sed -i s@docdir='$(datadir)/doc/groff/'@docdir=$docDir/@g Ma*
+	PERLPATH="/bin/env perl" \
 	runConfigure ./configure
 	make $jobArgs
 }