diff --git a/perl/perl/perl.conf b/perl/perl/perl.conf
index 8f34a5160..d724880c7 100644
--- a/perl/perl/perl.conf
+++ b/perl/perl/perl.conf
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
 #
 # Filename: package/.../perl/perl.conf
-# Copyright (C) 2012 - 2015 The OpenSDE Project
+# Copyright (C) 2012 - 2017 The OpenSDE Project
 #
 # More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
 #
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 # --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
 
 untar_cross_perl() {
-	tar -v $taropt $( match_source_file -p cross perl ) -C $builddir/
+	tar -v $taropt $( match_source_file -p cross perl ) --strip-components=1 -C $builddir/perl-$ver/
 }
 hook_add prepatch 1 "untar_cross_perl"
 
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ fi
 # let -D and -U override definitions from loaded configuration file
 var_append extraconfopt ' ' "-O"
 var_append extraconfopt ' ' "-Dusevendorprefix"
+var_append extraconfopt ' ' "-Dvendorprefix=/usr"
 
 # build a shared libperl
 if [ "$SDECFG_STATIC" != 1 ]; then
diff --git a/perl/perl/perl.desc b/perl/perl/perl.desc
index 9e673b175..e70bc114c 100644
--- a/perl/perl/perl.desc
+++ b/perl/perl/perl.desc
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 [COPY] This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
 [COPY]
 [COPY] Filename: package/.../perl/perl.desc
-[COPY] Copyright (C) 2006 - 2016 The OpenSDE Project
+[COPY] Copyright (C) 2006 - 2017 The OpenSDE Project
 [COPY] Copyright (C) 2004 - 2006 The T2 SDE Project
 [COPY] Copyright (C) 1998 - 2004 Clifford Wolf
 [COPY]
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@
 
 [L] GPL Artistic
 [S] Stable
-[V] 5.22.1
+[V] 5.24.1
 [P] X -1-3---7-9 102.000
 
-[D] 4263572310 perl-5.22.1.tar.gz http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/
-[D] 2924837214 perl-5.22.1-cross-1.0.2.tar.gz https://raw.github.com/arsv/perl-cross/releases/
+[D] 3184291446 perl-5.24.1.tar.gz http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/
+[D] 725303212 perl-cross-1.1.4.tar.gz https://github.com/arsv/perl-cross/releases/download/1.1.4/