diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 8b1cd36bd4..3409aaa08d 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Mon May 10 18:28:11 CEST 1999 Marc Lehmann <pcg@goof.com>
+
+        * configure.in: undo the part of patch "Tue May 4 15:51:16 PDT
+        1999" which broke gimp-perl configuration completely.
+
 Mon May 10 18:59:58 MEST 1999 Sven Neumann <sven@gimp.org>
 
 	* modules/colorsel_water.c: finally fixed my prob all by myself :)
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index bb1b7a543c..fd35c84172 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -562,10 +562,7 @@ if test "x$enable_perl" != xno; then
       dnl we ignore prefix
       cat >plug-ins/perl/config.status <<EOF
       echo invoking perl for configuration...
-      for i in ". embed"; do
-         cd $i
-         $PERL Makefile.PL --writemakefile
-      done
+      $PERL Makefile.PL --writemakefile
 EOF
       GIMP_PERL=perl
    else