diff --git a/t/basewiki_brokenlinks.t b/t/basewiki_brokenlinks.t
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index d7ff58da9..fbcc10554
--- a/t/basewiki_brokenlinks.t
+++ b/t/basewiki_brokenlinks.t
@@ -4,6 +4,6 @@ use strict;
 use Test::More tests => 3;
 
 ok(! system("make ikiwiki.out"));
-ok(! system("perl -T -I. ./ikiwiki.out -plugin brokenlinks -rebuild -underlaydir=basewiki -templatedir=templates t/basewiki_brokenlinks t/basewiki_brokenlinks/out"));
+ok(! system("LANG=C perl -T -I. ./ikiwiki.out -plugin brokenlinks -rebuild -underlaydir=basewiki -templatedir=templates t/basewiki_brokenlinks t/basewiki_brokenlinks/out"));
 ok(`grep 'no broken links' t/basewiki_brokenlinks/out/index.html`);
 system("rm -rf t/basewiki_brokenlinks/out t/basewiki_brokenlinks/.ikiwiki");
diff --git a/t/syntax.t b/t/syntax.t
index 20396aaae..38c5a82c4 100755
--- a/t/syntax.t
+++ b/t/syntax.t
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ use Test::More;
 
 my @progs="ikiwiki.in";
 my @libs="IkiWiki.pm";
-push @libs, map { chomp; $_ } `find IkiWiki -type f -name \\*.pm`;
+# monotone skipped since it needs a perl module
+push @libs, map { chomp; $_ } `find IkiWiki -type f -name \\*.pm | grep -v IkiWiki/Rcs/monotone.pm`;
 
 plan(tests => (@progs + @libs));