diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/texinfo/texinfo_5.1.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/texinfo/texinfo_5.1.bb
index 0f4b4af3ae..5b38fcca7c 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/texinfo/texinfo_5.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/texinfo/texinfo_5.1.bb
@@ -53,8 +53,9 @@ FILES_info-doc = "${infodir}/info.info ${infodir}/dir ${infodir}/info-*.info \
                   ${mandir}/man1/info.1* ${mandir}/man5/info.5* \
                   ${mandir}/man1/infokey.1* ${mandir}/man1/install-info.1*"
 
-FILES_${PN} = "${bindir}/makeinfo ${bindir}/texi* ${bindir}/pdftexi2dvi ${bindir}/pod2texi"
-FILES_${PN}-doc = "${datadir}/texinfo ${infodir}/texinfo* \
+FILES_${PN} = "${bindir}/makeinfo ${bindir}/texi* ${bindir}/pdftexi2dvi ${bindir}/pod2texi ${datadir}/texinfo"
+RDEPENDS_${PN} = "perl"
+FILES_${PN}-doc = "${infodir}/texinfo* \
                    ${datadir}/${tex_texinfo} \
                    ${mandir}/man1 ${mandir}/man5"