diff --git a/t/basewiki_brokenlinks.t b/t/basewiki_brokenlinks.t
index ac04f800f..479c71a93 100755
--- a/t/basewiki_brokenlinks.t
+++ b/t/basewiki_brokenlinks.t
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ ok(! system("make -s ikiwiki.out"));
 ok(! system("make extra_install DESTDIR=`pwd`/t/tmp/install PREFIX=/usr >/dev/null"));
 
 foreach my $plugin ("", "listdirectives") {
-	ok(! system("LC_ALL=C perl -T -I. ./ikiwiki.out -rebuild -plugin brokenlinks ".
+	ok(! system("LC_ALL=C perl -I. ./ikiwiki.out -rebuild -plugin brokenlinks ".
 			# always enabled because pages link to it conditionally,
 			# which brokenlinks cannot handle properly
 			"-plugin smiley ".
diff --git a/t/permalink.t b/t/permalink.t
index 9b44cd72e..c326e8d27 100755
--- a/t/permalink.t
+++ b/t/permalink.t
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ use Test::More 'no_plan';
 
 ok(! system("mkdir t/tmp"));
 ok(! system("make -s ikiwiki.out"));
-ok(! system("LC_ALL=C perl -T -I. ./ikiwiki.out -plugin inline -url=http://example.com -cgiurl=http://example.com/ikiwiki.cgi -rss -atom -underlaydir=underlays/basewiki -templatedir=templates t/tinyblog t/tmp/out"));
+ok(! system("LC_ALL=C perl -I. ./ikiwiki.out -plugin inline -url=http://example.com -cgiurl=http://example.com/ikiwiki.cgi -rss -atom -underlaydir=underlays/basewiki -templatedir=templates t/tinyblog t/tmp/out"));
 # This guid should never, ever change, for any reason whatsoever!
 my $guid="http://example.com/post/";
 ok(length `grep '<guid>$guid</guid>' t/tmp/out/index.rss`);
diff --git a/t/syntax.t b/t/syntax.t
index d09d17f7f..05d955f33 100755
--- a/t/syntax.t
+++ b/t/syntax.t
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ push @libs, 'IkiWiki/Plugin/skeleton.pm.example';
 plan(tests => (@progs + @libs));
 
 foreach my $file (@progs) {
-        ok(system("perl -T -c $file >/dev/null 2>&1") eq 0, $file);
+        ok(system("perl -c $file >/dev/null 2>&1") eq 0, $file);
 }
 foreach my $file (@libs) {
         ok(system("perl -c $file >/dev/null 2>&1") eq 0, $file);