diff --git a/config/perl.m4 b/config/perl.m4
index c823fc8cf0..c9fd91397c 100644
--- a/config/perl.m4
+++ b/config/perl.m4
@@ -81,9 +81,9 @@ AC_MSG_RESULT([$perl_embed_ccflags])
 # PGAC_CHECK_PERL_EMBED_LDFLAGS
 # -----------------------------
 # We are after Embed's ldopts, but without the subset mentioned in
-# Config's ccdlflags; and also without any -arch flags, which recent
-# Apple releases put in unhelpfully.  (If you want a multiarch build
-# you'd better be specifying it in more places than plperl's final link.)
+# Config's ccdlflags and ldflags.  (Those are the choices of those who
+# built the Perl installation, which are not necessarily appropriate
+# for building PostgreSQL.)
 AC_DEFUN([PGAC_CHECK_PERL_EMBED_LDFLAGS],
 [AC_REQUIRE([PGAC_PATH_PERL])
 AC_MSG_CHECKING(for flags to link embedded Perl)
@@ -99,8 +99,8 @@ if test "$PORTNAME" = "win32" ; then
 	fi
 else
 	pgac_tmp1=`$PERL -MExtUtils::Embed -e ldopts`
-	pgac_tmp2=`$PERL -MConfig -e 'print $Config{ccdlflags}'`
-	perl_embed_ldflags=`echo X"$pgac_tmp1" | sed -e "s/^X//" -e "s%$pgac_tmp2%%" -e ["s/ -arch [-a-zA-Z0-9_]*//g"]`
+	pgac_tmp2=`$PERL -MConfig -e 'print "$Config{ccdlflags} $Config{ldflags}"'`
+	perl_embed_ldflags=`echo X"$pgac_tmp1" | sed -e "s/^X//" -e "s%$pgac_tmp2%%"`
 fi
 AC_SUBST(perl_embed_ldflags)dnl
 if test -z "$perl_embed_ldflags" ; then
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 4bd050008b..814014a96b 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -10477,8 +10477,8 @@ if test "$PORTNAME" = "win32" ; then
 	fi
 else
 	pgac_tmp1=`$PERL -MExtUtils::Embed -e ldopts`
-	pgac_tmp2=`$PERL -MConfig -e 'print $Config{ccdlflags}'`
-	perl_embed_ldflags=`echo X"$pgac_tmp1" | sed -e "s/^X//" -e "s%$pgac_tmp2%%" -e "s/ -arch [-a-zA-Z0-9_]*//g"`
+	pgac_tmp2=`$PERL -MConfig -e 'print "$Config{ccdlflags} $Config{ldflags}"'`
+	perl_embed_ldflags=`echo X"$pgac_tmp1" | sed -e "s/^X//" -e "s%$pgac_tmp2%%"`
 fi
 if test -z "$perl_embed_ldflags" ; then
 	{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: no" >&5