diff --git a/lang/perl5/hacks.mk b/lang/perl5/hacks.mk
index 7e11c5008d21..96384b5004b4 100644
--- a/lang/perl5/hacks.mk
+++ b/lang/perl5/hacks.mk
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $NetBSD: hacks.mk,v 1.3 2006/04/09 06:34:32 jlam Exp $
+# $NetBSD: hacks.mk,v 1.4 2010/11/02 07:54:31 wiz Exp $
 
 .include "../../mk/compiler.mk"
 
@@ -35,17 +35,6 @@ PKG_HACKS+=		powerpc-codegen
 BUILDLINK_TRANSFORM+=	rm:-O[0-9]*
 .endif
 
-### [Fri Dec 10 18:46:19 EST 2004 : jlam]
-### On NetBSD/alpha, building perl with -mieee causes perl to not pass
-### the test for integer.pm (pkg/28498).  Until this is fixed in either
-### NetBSD, GCC or perl, strip out -mieee from the compiler command
-### line.
-###
-.if !empty(CC_VERSION:Mgcc*) && !empty(MACHINE_PLATFORM:MNetBSD-*-alpha)
-PKG_HACKS+=		alpha-mieee
-BUILDLINK_TRANSFORM+=	rm:-mieee
-.endif
-
 ### [Mon May 9 15:35:44 UTC 2005 : jlam]
 ### On NetBSD/arm, skipping one part of the optimization pass empirically
 ### "fixes" the build of perl using gcc-3.x.