diff --git a/Configure b/Configure
index b88f6aad4299c76dfed43ded3894008e99b074c5..133136077dcb1defb530098d8c55e2b7372cf14f 100755
--- a/Configure
+++ b/Configure
@@ -2398,7 +2398,8 @@ sub run_dofile
     foreach (@templates) {
         die "Can't open $_, $!" unless -f $_;
     }
-    my $cmd = "$config{perl} \"-I.\" \"-Mconfigdata\" \"$dofile\" -o\"Configure\" \"".join("\" \"",@templates)."\" > \"$out.new\"";
+    my $perlcmd = (quotify("maybeshell", $config{perl}))[0];
+    my $cmd = "$perlcmd \"-I.\" \"-Mconfigdata\" \"$dofile\" -o\"Configure\" \"".join("\" \"",@templates)."\" > \"$out.new\"";
     #print STDERR "DEBUG[run_dofile]: \$cmd = $cmd\n";
     system($cmd);
     exit 1 if $? != 0;
@@ -2558,6 +2559,14 @@ sub quotify {
 	perl    => sub { my $x = shift;
 			 $x =~ s/([\\\$\@"])/\\$1/g;
 			 return '"'.$x.'"'; },
+	maybeshell => sub { my $x = shift;
+			    (my $y = $x) =~ s/([\\\"])/\\$1/g;
+			    if ($x ne $y || $x =~ m|\s|) {
+				return '"'.$y.'"';
+			    } else {
+				return $x;
+			    }
+			},
 	);
     my $for = shift;
     my $processor =