--- config/perl.m4
+++ config/perl.m4
@@ -22,6 +22,14 @@
 AC_DEFUN([PGAC_CHECK_PERL_CONFIGS],
 [m4_foreach([pgac_item], [$1], [PGAC_CHECK_PERL_CONFIG(pgac_item)])])
 
+# PGAC_CHECK_PERL_EMBED_CCFLAGS
+# -----------------------------
+AC_DEFUN([PGAC_CHECK_PERL_EMBED_CCFLAGS],
+[AC_REQUIRE([PGAC_PATH_PERL])
+AC_MSG_CHECKING([for CFLAGS to compile embedded Perl])
+perl_ccflags=`$PERL -MConfig -e 'foreach $f (split(" ",$Config{ccflags})) {if ($f =~ /^-D/) {print $f, " "}}'`
+AC_SUBST(perl_ccflags)dnl
+AC_MSG_RESULT([$perl_ccflags])])
 
 # PGAC_CHECK_PERL_EMBED_LDFLAGS
 # -----------------------------
--- configure.in
+++ configure.in
@@ -583,6 +583,7 @@
 PGAC_PATH_PERL
 if test "$with_perl" = yes; then
   PGAC_CHECK_PERL_CONFIGS([archlibexp,privlibexp,useshrplib])
+  PGAC_CHECK_PERL_EMBED_CCFLAGS
   PGAC_CHECK_PERL_EMBED_LDFLAGS
 fi
 
--- src/Makefile.global.in
+++ src/Makefile.global.in
@@ -202,6 +202,7 @@
 perl_archlibexp		= @perl_archlibexp@
 perl_privlibexp		= @perl_privlibexp@
 perl_useshrplib		= @perl_useshrplib@
+perl_ccflags		= @perl_ccflags@
 perl_embed_ldflags	= @perl_embed_ldflags@
 
 # Miscellaneous
--- src/pl/plperl/GNUmakefile
+++ src/pl/plperl/GNUmakefile
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 
 # The code isn't clean with regard to these warnings.
 ifeq ($(GCC),yes)
-override CFLAGS := $(filter-out -Wall -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes, $(CFLAGS))
+override CFLAGS := $(filter-out -Wall -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes, $(CFLAGS)) $(perl_ccflags)
 endif
 
 override CPPFLAGS := -I$(srcdir) -I$(perl_archlibexp)/CORE $(CPPFLAGS)