diff --git a/perl/configure.ac b/perl/configure.ac
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-AC_INIT(nix-perl, m4_esyscmd([bash -c "echo -n $(cat ../.version)$VERSION_SUFFIX"]))
-AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(MANIFEST)
-AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(../config)
-
-CFLAGS=
-CXXFLAGS=
-AC_PROG_CC
-AC_PROG_CXX
-
-AC_CANONICAL_HOST
-
-# Use 64-bit file system calls so that we can support files > 2 GiB.
-AC_SYS_LARGEFILE
-
-AC_DEFUN([NEED_PROG],
-[
-AC_PATH_PROG($1, $2)
-if test -z "$$1"; then
-    AC_MSG_ERROR([$2 is required])
-fi
-])
-
-NEED_PROG(perl, perl)
-NEED_PROG(curl, curl)
-NEED_PROG(bzip2, bzip2)
-NEED_PROG(xz, xz)
-
-# Test that Perl has the open/fork feature (Perl 5.8.0 and beyond).
-AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether Perl is recent enough])
-if ! $perl -e 'open(FOO, "-|", "true"); while (<FOO>) { print; }; close FOO or die;'; then
-    AC_MSG_RESULT(no)
-    AC_MSG_ERROR([Your Perl version is too old.  Lix requires Perl 5.8.0 or newer.])
-fi
-AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)
-
-
-# Figure out where to install Perl modules.
-AC_MSG_CHECKING([for the Perl installation prefix])
-perlversion=$($perl -e 'use Config; print $Config{version};')
-perlarchname=$($perl -e 'use Config; print $Config{archname};')
-AC_SUBST(perllibdir, [${libdir}/perl5/site_perl/$perlversion/$perlarchname])
-AC_MSG_RESULT($perllibdir)
-
-# Look for libsodium.
-PKG_CHECK_MODULES([SODIUM], [libsodium], [CXXFLAGS="$SODIUM_CFLAGS $CXXFLAGS"])
-
-# Check for the required Perl dependencies (DBI and DBD::SQLite).
-perlFlags="-I$perllibdir"
-
-AC_ARG_WITH(dbi, AC_HELP_STRING([--with-dbi=PATH],
-  [prefix of the Perl DBI library]),
-  perlFlags="$perlFlags -I$withval")
-
-AC_ARG_WITH(dbd-sqlite, AC_HELP_STRING([--with-dbd-sqlite=PATH],
-  [prefix of the Perl DBD::SQLite library]),
-  perlFlags="$perlFlags -I$withval")
-
-AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether DBD::SQLite works])
-if ! $perl $perlFlags -e 'use DBI; use DBD::SQLite;' 2>&5; then
-    AC_MSG_RESULT(no)
-    AC_MSG_FAILURE([The Perl modules DBI and/or DBD::SQLite are missing.])
-fi
-AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)
-
-AC_SUBST(perlFlags)
-
-PKG_CHECK_MODULES([NIX], [nix-store])
-
-NEED_PROG([NIX], [nix])
-
-# Expand all variables in config.status.
-test "$prefix" = NONE && prefix=$ac_default_prefix
-test "$exec_prefix" = NONE && exec_prefix='${prefix}'
-for name in $ac_subst_vars; do
-    declare $name="$(eval echo "${!name}")"
-    declare $name="$(eval echo "${!name}")"
-    declare $name="$(eval echo "${!name}")"
-done
-
-rm -f Makefile.config
-ln -sfn ../mk mk
-
-AC_CONFIG_FILES([])
-AC_OUTPUT