diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/quilt/quilt_0.51.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/quilt/quilt_0.51.bb
index 6865cd8..4e51b49 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/quilt/quilt_0.51.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/quilt/quilt_0.51.bb
@@ -4,4 +4,17 @@ RDEPENDS_${PN} += "patch diffstat bzip2 util-linux"
 SRC_URI += "file://aclocal.patch \
             file://gnu_patch_test_fix_target.patch \
            "
-PR = "r3"
+PR = "r4"
+
+PERLPATH = "${bindir}/env perl"
+PERLPATH_virtclass-nativesdk = "/usr/bin/env perl"
+
+# fix build-distro specific perl path in the target perl scripts
+do_install_append() {
+	for perlscript in ${D}${datadir}/quilt/scripts/remove-trailing-ws ${D}${datadir}/quilt/scripts/dependency-graph ${D}${datadir}/quilt/scripts/edmail ${D}${bindir}/guards
+	do
+		if [ -f $perlscript ]; then
+			sed -i -e '1s,#!.*perl,#! ${PERLPATH},' $perlscript
+		fi
+	done
+}