diff --git a/dev-perl/HTML-Quoted/HTML-Quoted-0.40.0.ebuild b/dev-perl/HTML-Quoted/HTML-Quoted-0.40.0.ebuild
index 7845a0b56c5c9..79dd4f858e187 100644
--- a/dev-perl/HTML-Quoted/HTML-Quoted-0.40.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-perl/HTML-Quoted/HTML-Quoted-0.40.0.ebuild
@@ -19,3 +19,9 @@ RDEPEND="
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 	>=virtual/perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.590.0
 "
+
+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
+}