diff --git a/perl/perl.spec b/perl/perl.spec
index 2d49e6730c..16734ffec7 100644
--- a/perl/perl.spec
+++ b/perl/perl.spec
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ AutoReqProv:  no
 
 %build
     #   Eval hack for obsolete Linux versions (like Debian 2.2) with too old 
-    #   bintutils where our GCC 3.0 makes trouble on Perl loading DSO based modules.
+    #   binutils where our GCC 3.0 makes trouble on Perl loading DSO based modules.
     #   In order to avoid having to require the user to update to binutils 2.11, 
     #   we have to force Perl to use the system-supplied compiler... :-(  
     cc="%{l_cc}"