diff -urN rpm-4.3.org/configure.ac rpm-4.3/configure.ac
--- rpm-4.3.org/configure.ac	2004-01-07 01:51:35.251160244 +0100
+++ rpm-4.3/configure.ac	2004-01-07 01:55:53.198560246 +0100
@@ -1196,6 +1196,7 @@
 AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS(popt beecrypt zlib elfutils file db3)
 
 AC_CONFIG_FILES([ Doxyfile Makefile rpmrc macros platform rpmpopt rpm.spec
+	scripts/perl.req scripts/perl.prov
 	rpmio/Makefile rpmdb/Makefile lib/Makefile build/Makefile
 	scripts/Makefile scripts/brp-redhat
 	scripts/macros.perl scripts/macros.php scripts/macros.python
diff -urN rpm-4.3.org/scripts/perl.req rpm-4.3/scripts/perl.req
--- rpm-4.3.org/scripts/perl.req	2004-01-07 01:51:04.911464416 +0100
+++ rpm-4.3/scripts/perl.req	2004-01-07 01:55:17.030076058 +0100
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/perl
+#!@__PERL@
 
 # RPM (and it's source code) is covered under two separate licenses. 
 
@@ -41,7 +41,11 @@
 
 if ("@ARGV") {
   foreach (@ARGV) {
-    process_file($_);
+    if (m=/usr/(sbin|bin|lib|share|X11R6/(lib|bin))/=) {
+      if (! m=(/(doc|man|info|usr/src)/|\.(so|ph|h|html|pod)$)=) {
+        process_file($_);
+      }
+    }
   }
 } else {
   
@@ -49,14 +53,22 @@
   # contents of the file.
   
   foreach (<>) {
-    process_file($_);
+     if (m=/usr/(sbin|bin|lib|share|X11R6/(lib|bin))/=) {
+       if (! m=(/(doc|man|info|usr/src)/|\.(so|ph|h|html|pod)$)=) {
+         process_file($_);
+       }
+     }
   }
 }
 
 
 foreach $module (sort keys %require) {
   if (length($require{$module}) == 0) {
-    print "perl($module)\n";
+     if ($module =~ /^[0-9._]+$/) {
+       print "perl >= $module\n";
+     } else {
+         print "perl($module)\n";
+     }
   } else {
 
     # I am not using rpm3.0 so I do not want spaces arround my
@@ -219,7 +231,31 @@
       # will be included with the name sys/systeminfo.ph so only use the
       # basename of *.ph files
 
-      ($module  =~ m/\.ph$/) && next;
+      # ($module  =~ m/\.ph$/) && ($module =~ s!.*/!!g );
+ 
+      # there is no need to generate dependencies for ph, pl or test files
+      # so let's just skip them.
+
+      ($module =~ m/\.(ph|pl|t)$/) && next;
+
+      # skip all modules for platforms other than linux.
+
+      ($module =~ m/Mac|OS2|MSDOS|Win32|VMS|vmsish/) && next;
+
+      # if the module name starts in a dot it is not a module name.
+
+      ($module =~ m/^\./) && next;
+
+      # if the module ends with .pm strip it to leave only basename.
+
+      $module =~ s/\.pm$//;
+
+      $module =~ s/\//::/;
+
+      # trim off trailing parenthesis if any.  Sometimes people pass
+      # the module an empty list.
+
+      $module =~ s/\(\s*\)$//;
 
       $require{$module}=$version;
       $line{$module}=$_;