diff --git a/package/perl/perl.mk b/package/perl/perl.mk
index b9f90e48cd..7192700410 100644
--- a/package/perl/perl.mk
+++ b/package/perl/perl.mk
@@ -45,13 +45,12 @@ PERL_DEPENDENCIES += gdbm
 endif
 
 # We have to override LD, because an external multilib toolchain ld is not
-# wrapped to provide the required sysroot options.  We also can't use ccache
-# because the configure script doesn't support it.
+# wrapped to provide the required sysroot options.
 PERL_CONF_OPTS = \
 	--target=$(GNU_TARGET_NAME) \
 	--target-tools-prefix=$(TARGET_CROSS) \
 	--prefix=/usr \
-	-Dld="$(TARGET_CC_NOCCACHE)" \
+	-Dld="$(TARGET_CC)" \
 	-Dccflags="$(TARGET_CFLAGS)" \
 	-Dldflags="$(TARGET_LDFLAGS) -lm" \
 	-Dmydomain="" \