diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/gnu-config/gnu-config/gnu-configize.in b/meta/recipes-devtools/gnu-config/gnu-config/gnu-configize.in
index be8580c8e6..d4908fc4f9 100755
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/gnu-config/gnu-config/gnu-configize.in
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/gnu-config/gnu-config/gnu-configize.in
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#! /usr/bin/perl -w
+#! /usr/bin/env perl
 # -*- perl -*-
 
 eval 'case $# in 0) exec /usr/bin/perl -S "$0";; *) exec /usr/bin/perl -S "$0" "$@";; esac'
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/gnu-config/gnu-config_20080123.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/gnu-config/gnu-config_20080123.bb
index 2629ecb52f..e0a815560f 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/gnu-config/gnu-config_20080123.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/gnu-config/gnu-config_20080123.bb
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ INHIBIT_DEFAULT_DEPS = "1"
 
 FIXEDSRCDATE = "${@bb.data.getVar('FILE', d, 1).split('_')[-1].split('.')[0]}"
 PV = "0.1+cvs${FIXEDSRCDATE}"
-PR = "r1"
+PR = "r2"
 
 SRC_URI = "cvs://anonymous@cvs.sv.gnu.org/cvsroot/config;module=config;method=pserver;date=${FIXEDSRCDATE} \
 	   file://config-guess-uclibc.patch \
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ do_install () {
 		    -e 's,@autom4te_perllibdir@,${datadir}/autoconf,g' > ${D}${bindir}/gnu-configize
 	# In the native case we want the system perl as perl-native can't have built yet
 	if [ "${BUILD_ARCH}" != "${TARGET_ARCH}" ]; then
-		sed -i -e 's,/usr/bin/perl,${bindir}/perl,g' ${D}${bindir}/gnu-configize
+		sed -i -e 's,/usr/bin/env,${bindir}/env,g' ${D}${bindir}/gnu-configize
 	fi
 	chmod 755 ${D}${bindir}/gnu-configize
 	install -m 0644 config.guess config.sub ${D}${datadir}/gnu-config/