diff --git a/dev-lang/perl/perl-5.26.2.recipe b/dev-lang/perl/perl-5.26.2.recipe
index 0972004d3..91b23f396 100644
--- a/dev-lang/perl/perl-5.26.2.recipe
+++ b/dev-lang/perl/perl-5.26.2.recipe
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ HOMEPAGE="http://www.perl.org/"
 COPYRIGHT="1993-2017 Larry Wall and others"
 LICENSE="GNU GPL v1
 	Artistic"
-REVISION="1"
+REVISION="2"
 perlShortVersion="${portVersion%.*}"
 SOURCE_URI="http://www.cpan.org/src/perl-$portVersion.tar.gz"
 CHECKSUM_SHA256="572f9cea625d6062f8a63b5cee9d3ee840800a001d2bb201a41b9a177ab7f70d"
@@ -61,9 +61,7 @@ PROVIDES="
 	# vendor_perl refers to the path to packaged perl modules, which includes
 	# the short perl version, so it is backwards compatible up this one.
 	vendor_perl = $perlShortVersion compat >= $perlShortVersion
-	# It is unclear which kind of backwards compatibility libperl.so
-	# implements, so we assume none.
-	lib:libperl = $portVersion compat >= $portVersion
+	lib:libperl = $portVersion compat >= $perlShortVersion
 	"
 REQUIRES="
 	haiku