diff -ruN latex2html-2017.2.orig/configure latex2html-2017.2/configure
--- latex2html-2017.2.orig/configure	2017-01-23 17:14:25.000000000 -0000
+++ latex2html-2017.2/configure	2017-08-04 09:21:02.929355288 -0000
@@ -1225,7 +1225,7 @@
 fi
 
 # this is used to get the values from the config file
-eval `perl -w -e 'use cfgcache; foreach(keys %cfg) { print qq($_='"'"'$cfg{$_}'"'"'\n);}'`
+eval `perl -w -e 'use lib q[.]; use cfgcache; foreach(keys %cfg) { print qq($_='"'"'$cfg{$_}'"'"'\n);}'`