diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/interpreter.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/interpreter.nix
index 58f66bc811dd..e179db9ff058 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/interpreter.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/interpreter.nix
@@ -125,6 +125,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (
             "-Dlibpth=\"\""
             "-Dglibpth=\"\""
             "-Ddefault_inc_excludes_dot"
+            # https://github.com/arsv/perl-cross/issues/158
+            "-Dd_gnulibc=define"
           ]
         else
           (