diff --git a/www-servers/nginx-unit/nginx-unit-1.30.0.ebuild b/www-servers/nginx-unit/nginx-unit-1.30.0.ebuild
index 8d3e40e6aa945..576f5179c69ff 100644
--- a/www-servers/nginx-unit/nginx-unit-1.30.0.ebuild
+++ b/www-servers/nginx-unit/nginx-unit-1.30.0.ebuild
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64"
 MY_USE="perl python ruby"
 MY_USE_PHP="php7-4 php8-0 php8-1 php8-2"
-IUSE="${MY_USE} ${MY_USE_PHP} ssl"
+IUSE="${MY_USE} ${MY_USE_PHP} perl ssl"
 REQUIRED_USE="|| ( ${IUSE} )
 	python? ( ${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE} )"
 
@@ -88,6 +88,12 @@ src_configure() {
 src_install() {
 	default
 
+	if use perl ; then
+		echo "1"
+		echo "D is ${D}"
+		emake DESTDIR="${D}/" perl-install
+	fi
+
 	rm -rf "${ED}"/usr/var
 
 	diropts -m 0770