diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl-native_5.8.8.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl-native_5.8.8.bb
index 63215256aa..ad71b87085 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl-native_5.8.8.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl-native_5.8.8.bb
@@ -94,3 +94,8 @@ do_install_append_nylon() {
 }
 
 PARALLEL_MAKE = ""
+
+# Perl encodes the staging path into the perl binary so we have to depend on this
+# as part of the checksum for now
+HARDPATH := "${STAGING_BINDIR}"
+do_populate_sysroot[vardeps] += "HARDPATH"