--- /home/flame/devel/gentoo-x86/sys-devel/libperl/libperl-5.8.8-r1.ebuild	2006-11-19 21:31:16.242957152 +0100
+++ libperl-5.8.8-r1.ebuild	2006-12-11 01:18:39.782749393 +0100
@@ -241,9 +241,11 @@
 
 	[[ ${ELIBC} == "FreeBSD" ]] && myconf "-Dlibc=/usr/$(get_libdir)/libc.a"
 
-	if [[ $(get_libdir) != "lib" ]] ; then
-		myconf "-Dlibpth=/usr/local/$(get_libdir) /$(get_libdir) /usr/$(get_libdir)"
-	fi
+	# For the library path, use what the compiler knows to look
+	# in already, rather than defaulting to /'s libraries paths, and
+	# avoid adding /usr/local as that's polluting the environment to
+	# start with
+	myconf "-Dlibpth=$( $(tc-getCC) -print-search-dirs | grep libraries | cut -d = -f 2 | tr ':' ' ' )"
 
 	sh Configure -des \
 		-Darchname="${myarch}" \