diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl-5.14.2/perl-build-in-t-dir.patch b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl-5.14.2/perl-build-in-t-dir.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cd36ec5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl-5.14.2/perl-build-in-t-dir.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+Upstream-Status:Pending
+
+Perl cannot cross build in a path containing a directory that
+has the name of "t".
+
+You get an error like:
+
+
+Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
+---
+ pod/buildtoc |    4 +++-
+ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+--- a/pod/buildtoc
++++ b/pod/buildtoc
+@@ -274,8 +274,10 @@ if ($Build{toc}) {
+   find \&getpods => abs_from_top('lib/');
+ 
+   sub getpods {
++    my $Top = $FindBin::Bin;
+     if (/\.p(od|m)$/) {
+       my $file = $File::Find::name;
++      $file =~ s!^$Top!!;
+       return if $file =~ qr!/lib/Pod/Functions.pm\z!; # Used only by pod itself
+       return if $file =~ m!(?:^|/)t/!;
+       return if $file =~ m!lib/Attribute/Handlers/demo/!;
+@@ -283,7 +285,7 @@ if ($Build{toc}) {
+       return if $file =~ m!lib/Math/BigInt/t/!;
+       return if $file =~ m!/Devel/PPPort/[Hh]arness|lib/Devel/Harness!i;
+       return if $file =~ m!XS/(?:APItest|Typemap)!;
+-      my $pod = $file;
++      my $pod = $file = $File::Find::name;
+       return if $pod =~ s/pm$/pod/ && -e $pod;
+       unless (open my $f, '<', $_) {
+ 	warn "$0: bogus <$file>: $!";
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl-native_5.14.2.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl-native_5.14.2.bb
index c904c37..429a029 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl-native_5.14.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl-native_5.14.2.bb
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ SRC_URI = "http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-${PV}.tar.gz \
            file://perl-configpm-switch.patch \
            file://native-nopacklist.patch \
            file://native-perlinc.patch \
-           file://MM_Unix.pm.patch"
+           file://MM_Unix.pm.patch \
+           file://perl-build-in-t-dir.patch"
 
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "3306fbaf976dcebdcd49b2ac0be00eb9"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "6488359573bd7d41761bf935f66f827dc220fb3df961ef9b775d51fbd66548d3"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl_5.14.2.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl_5.14.2.bb
index 809fc72..2149b30 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl_5.14.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl_5.14.2.bb
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ SRC_URI = "http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-${PV}.tar.gz \
         file://perl-enable-gdbm.patch \
         file://cross-generate_uudmap.patch \
 	file://fix_bad_rpath.patch \
+	file://perl-build-in-t-dir.patch \
 	\
         file://config.sh \
         file://config.sh-32 \