diff --git a/templates/perl-runstuff-before-build.sh b/templates/perl-runstuff-before-build.sh
index 07befebfcb6..d590593fb54 100644
--- a/templates/perl-runstuff-before-build.sh
+++ b/templates/perl-runstuff-before-build.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,12 @@
 # This fixes the definitions that the perl binary uses to look at
 # prefix and not XBPS_DESTDIR/MASTERDIR.
 
-$sed_cmd -i								\
-	-e "s|$XBPS_DESTDIR\/$pkgname-$version|/usr|g"			\
-	-e "s|$XBPS_MASTERDIR||g"					\
-	$wrksrc/config.h
+if [ "$XBPS_DESTDIR" != "/xbps" ]; then
+	sed -i -e "s|$XBPS_DESTDIR\/$pkgname-$version|/usr|g" $wrksrc/config.h
+fi
+
+sed -i -e "s|/usr/usr|/usr|g" $wrksrc/config.h
+
+if [ "$XBPS_MASTERDIR" != "/" ]; then
+	sed -i -e "s|$XBPS_MASTERDIR||g" $wrksrc/config.h
+fi
diff --git a/templates/perl.tmpl b/templates/perl.tmpl
index 1c8e23fb1d2..6c5f9b9a9b8 100644
--- a/templates/perl.tmpl
+++ b/templates/perl.tmpl
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ pkgname=perl
 version=5.10.0
 distfiles="http://www.cpan.org/src/$pkgname-$version@.tar.gz"
 configure_script="./Configure"
-configure_args="-Dusethreads -des -Dprefix=$XBPS_DESTDIR/$pkgname-$version
- -Duselargefiles -Uusesfio -Dinstallstyle=lib/perl5"
+configure_args="-Dusethreads -des -Dprefix=$XBPS_DESTDIR/$pkgname-$version/usr
+ -Duselargefiles -Uusesfio -Dinstallstyle=lib/perl5 -Uinstallusrbinperl"
 build_style=configure
 short_desc="Practical Extraction and Report Language"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"