diff --git a/dev-perl/REST-Client/REST-Client-273.ebuild b/dev-perl/REST-Client/REST-Client-273.ebuild
index 5eafd53602d1c..b23a0024acabb 100644
--- a/dev-perl/REST-Client/REST-Client-273.ebuild
+++ b/dev-perl/REST-Client/REST-Client-273.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2014 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=6
@@ -21,3 +21,9 @@ DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 	virtual/perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker
 	test? ( virtual/perl-Test-Simple )
 "
+
+src_prepare() {
+	sed -i -e 's/use inc::Module::Install/use lib q[.]; use inc::Module::Install/' Makefile.PL ||
+		die "Can't patch Makefile.PL for 5.26 dot-in-inc"
+	perl-module_src_prepare
+}