diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 846116e1128ee4..a7096bcd4444f0 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -11457,6 +11457,10 @@ fi
 $as_echo "#define WITH_DTRACE 1" >>confdefs.h
 
     DTRACE_HEADERS="Include/pydtrace_probes.h"
+    DTRACE_CMD="$DTRACE $DFLAGS"
+    if test "$ac_sys_system" = "Linux"; then
+	DTRACE_CMD="$DTRACE"
+    fi
 
     # On OS X, DTrace providers do not need to be explicitly compiled and
     # linked into the binary. Correspondingly, dtrace(1) is missing the ELF
@@ -11469,7 +11473,7 @@ if ${ac_cv_dtrace_link+:} false; then :
 else
               ac_cv_dtrace_link=no
             echo 'BEGIN{}' > conftest.d
-            "$DTRACE" "$DFLAGS" -G -s conftest.d -o conftest.o > /dev/null 2>&1 && \
+            "$DTRACE_CMD" -G -s conftest.d -o conftest.o > /dev/null 2>&1 && \
                 ac_cv_dtrace_link=yes
 
 fi
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 840caf352d1dd7..6744fab9c89007 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -3517,6 +3517,10 @@ then
     fi
     AC_DEFINE(WITH_DTRACE, 1, [Define if you want to compile in DTrace support])
     DTRACE_HEADERS="Include/pydtrace_probes.h"
+    DTRACE_CMD="$DTRACE $DFLAGS"
+    if test "$ac_sys_system" = "Linux"; then
+	DTRACE_CMD="$DTRACE"
+    fi
 
     # On OS X, DTrace providers do not need to be explicitly compiled and
     # linked into the binary. Correspondingly, dtrace(1) is missing the ELF
@@ -3526,7 +3530,7 @@ then
         [ac_cv_dtrace_link], [dnl
             ac_cv_dtrace_link=no
             echo 'BEGIN{}' > conftest.d
-            "$DTRACE" "$DFLAGS" -G -s conftest.d -o conftest.o > /dev/null 2>&1 && \
+            "$DTRACE_CMD" -G -s conftest.d -o conftest.o > /dev/null 2>&1 && \
                 ac_cv_dtrace_link=yes
       ])
     if test "$ac_cv_dtrace_link" = "yes"; then