diff --git a/packages/perl.rb b/packages/perl.rb
index 464fd9397c..6b25e9fa6f 100644
--- a/packages/perl.rb
+++ b/packages/perl.rb
@@ -1,19 +1,43 @@
 require 'package'
 
 class Perl < Package
-  version '5.24.1'
+  version '5.24.1-1'
   source_url 'http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.24.1.tar.gz'
   source_sha1 '19b218bbc3a63a8408ed56b93928fd9a4c1b5c83'
-  binary_url ({
-    aarch64: 'https://github.com/jam7/chromebrew/releases/download/binaries/perl-5.24.1-chromeos-armv7l.tar.xz',
-    armv7l:  'https://github.com/jam7/chromebrew/releases/download/binaries/perl-5.24.1-chromeos-armv7l.tar.xz',
-    i686:    'https://github.com/jam7/chromebrew/releases/download/binaries/perl-5.24.1-chromeos-i686.tar.xz',
-    x86_64:  'https://github.com/jam7/chromebrew/releases/download/binaries/perl-5.24.1-chromeos-x86_64.tar.xz',
-  })
-  binary_sha1 ({
-    aarch64: '3352e1cb829062bf91da51802304b702aaa072d8',
-    armv7l:  '3352e1cb829062bf91da51802304b702aaa072d8',
-    i686:    '2929f609a1d4d098eef649432af7feb2b8762e4f',
-    x86_64:  '5406a1b1a2d32392e44de48e9a7ea17d76918389',
-  })
+
+  depends_on 'patch' => :build
+
+  def self.build
+    # Use system zlib and bzip2
+    # Create shared library
+    system "BUILD_ZLIB=False BUILD_BZIP2=0 ./Configure -de -Duseshrplib"
+    system "make"
+    system "find . -name '*.so' -print | xargs strip -S"
+  end
+
+  def self.install
+    system "make", "DESTDIR=#{CREW_DEST_DIR}", "install-strip"
+  end
+
+  def self.check
+    # having strange error as explained at https://patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/95795/
+    # so, apply patch from https://github.com/habitat-sh/core-plans/blob/master/perl/skip-wide-character-test.patch
+    # to ignore this single test
+    system 'patch -p1 << EOF
+diff -ur perl-5.22.1.orig/t/lib/warnings/regexec perl-5.22.1/t/lib/warnings/regexec
+--- perl-5.22.1.orig/t/lib/warnings/regexec     2015-10-30 21:14:29.000000000 +0000
++++ perl-5.22.1/t/lib/warnings/regexec  2016-01-19 05:05:50.218474114 +0000
+@@ -188,6 +188,7 @@
+ ########
+ # NAME \b{} in UTF-8 locale
+ require \'../loc_tools.pl\';
++print("SKIPPED\n# This test causes a failure in the test suite\n"),exit;
+ unless (locales_enabled()) {
+     print("SKIPPED\n# locales not available\n"),exit;
+ }
+EOF'
+
+    # test
+    system "make test"
+  end
 end