diff --git a/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl.inc b/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl.inc
index 0d9716c..3313a94 100644
--- a/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl.inc
+++ b/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl.inc
@@ -6,3 +6,5 @@
 		    file://Artistic;md5=2e6fd2475335af892494fe1f7327baf3"
 
 SRC_URI = "http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/${BP}.tar.xz"
+
+inherit upstream-version-is-even