diff --git a/templates/perl/template b/templates/perl/template
index 443fa9a6573..3700ecbf37f 100644
--- a/templates/perl/template
+++ b/templates/perl/template
@@ -1,17 +1,12 @@
 # Template build file for 'perl'.
 pkgname=perl
-version=5.10.0
+version=5.10.1
 distfiles="http://www.cpan.org/src/$pkgname-$version.tar.gz"
-configure_script="./Configure"
-configure_args="-Dusethreads -des -Dprefix=$XBPS_DESTDIR/$pkgname-$version/usr
- -Duselargefiles -Uusesfio -Dinstallstyle=lib/perl5 -Uinstallusrbinperl
- -Dman1dir=$XBPS_DESTDIR/$pkgname-$version/usr/share/man/man1
- -Dman3dir=$XBPS_DESTDIR/$pkgname-$version/usr/share/man/man3"
 build_style=configure
-make_install_target="install"
+configure_script="./Configure"
 short_desc="Practical Extraction and Report Language"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
-checksum=94464a0d374fa63226eee56e0bb3d35564f9d8391a1a8d9f0055805ec25f3b2e
+checksum=cb7f26ea4b2b28d6644354d87a269d01cac1b635287dae64e88eeafa24b44f35
 long_desc="
  Perl is a general-purpose programming language originally developed
  for text manipulation and now used for a wide range of tasks including
@@ -24,6 +19,31 @@ long_desc="
  collections of third-party modules."
 
 Add_dependency full glibc
+Add_dependency full gdbm
+Add_dependency full db
+
+pre_configure()
+{
+	local p5_base p5_apiver args
+
+	cd $wrksrc || return 1
+	# Taken from NetBSD.
+	p5_base="/usr/lib/perl5"
+	p5_apiver="$(awk '/\#define[    ]*PERL_API_REVISION/ { R = $3 } \
+			  /\#define[    ]*PERL_API_VERSION/ { r = "."$3 } \
+			  /\#define[    ]*PERL_API_SUBVERSION/ { s = "."$3 } \
+			  END { printf "%s%s%s\n", R, r, s }' patchlevel.h)"
+
+	args="-Dusethreads -des -Dprefix=/usr \
+		-Duselargefiles -Uusesfio -Dinstallstyle=lib/perl5 \
+		-Uinstallusrbinperl -Duseshrplib \
+		-Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 \
+		-Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3 \
+		-Dprivlib=${p5_base}/${p5_apiver} \
+		-Dsitelib=${p5_base}/site_perl/${p5_apiver} \
+		-Dvendorlib=${p5_base}/vendor_perl/${p5_apiver}"
+	export configure_args="${args}"
+}
 
 pre_build()
 {