diff --git a/src/bindings/perl/Makefile.PL b/src/bindings/perl/Makefile.PL
index a629deb570b0fa821d2cf8f4aa26042c7a840871..68b6782980e2174071658865af4e7489ef4847f3 100644
--- a/src/bindings/perl/Makefile.PL
+++ b/src/bindings/perl/Makefile.PL
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ chdir(dirname($0));
 
 WriteMakefile(
     NAME => "hammer",
-    LIBS => ["-lhammer"],
+    LIBS => ["-L../../ -lhammer"],
     OBJECT => 'hammer_wrap.o',
     INC => '-I../..',
     CCFLAGS => "$Config{ccflags} -DSWIG -DHAS_BOOL -std=gnu99",
diff --git a/src/bindings/perl/SConscript b/src/bindings/perl/SConscript
index 5ddd6732e6476ff2c3d0b9bd427e1fd481ddb4b4..49b693a7035cabfe1914c0a2fc172d31a07e23dd 100644
--- a/src/bindings/perl/SConscript
+++ b/src/bindings/perl/SConscript
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Default(libhammer_perl)
 perltestenv = perlenv.Clone()
 perltestenv['ENV']['LD_LIBRARY_PATH'] = os.path.dirname(str(libhammer_shared[0]))
 perltests = ['t/hammer.t']
-perltestexec = perltestenv.Command(None, perltests + libhammer_perl + libhammer_shared, "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=" + os.path.dirname(str(libhammer_shared[0])) + " make test -C " + targetdir)
+perltestexec = perltestenv.Command(None, perltests + libhammer_perl + libhammer_shared, "make test -C " + targetdir)
 perltest = Alias("testperl", [perltestexec], perltestexec)
 AlwaysBuild(perltestexec)
 testruns.append(perltest)