diff --git a/dev-perl/Search-Xapian/Search-Xapian-1.2.25.0.ebuild b/dev-perl/Search-Xapian/Search-Xapian-1.2.25.0.ebuild
index b8cfbc7060ef0..5cc9b91c2ae4b 100644
--- a/dev-perl/Search-Xapian/Search-Xapian-1.2.25.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-perl/Search-Xapian/Search-Xapian-1.2.25.0.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=6
@@ -27,7 +27,10 @@ DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 DIST_TEST=do
 # parallel fails sometimes...
 
-myconf="CXX=$(tc-getCXX) CXXFLAGS=${CXXFLAGS}"
+src_configure() {
+	myconf="CXX=$(tc-getCXX) CXXFLAGS=${CXXFLAGS}"
+	perl-module_src_configure
+}
 
 src_install() {
 	perl-module_src_install
diff --git a/dev-perl/Search-Xapian/Search-Xapian-1.2.25.4-r1.ebuild b/dev-perl/Search-Xapian/Search-Xapian-1.2.25.4-r1.ebuild
index 3a61a1ff3b12b..f7d7e72802ade 100644
--- a/dev-perl/Search-Xapian/Search-Xapian-1.2.25.4-r1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-perl/Search-Xapian/Search-Xapian-1.2.25.4-r1.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=8
@@ -26,7 +26,10 @@ DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 DIST_TEST=do
 # parallel fails sometimes...
 
-myconf="CXX=$(tc-getCXX) CXXFLAGS=${CXXFLAGS}"
+src_configure() {
+	myconf="CXX=$(tc-getCXX) CXXFLAGS=${CXXFLAGS}"
+	perl-module_src_configure
+}
 
 src_install() {
 	perl-module_src_install
diff --git a/dev-perl/Search-Xapian/Search-Xapian-1.2.25.5-r1.ebuild b/dev-perl/Search-Xapian/Search-Xapian-1.2.25.5-r1.ebuild
index b3fef4008d7bc..9e0f99acb6178 100644
--- a/dev-perl/Search-Xapian/Search-Xapian-1.2.25.5-r1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-perl/Search-Xapian/Search-Xapian-1.2.25.5-r1.ebuild
@@ -23,7 +23,10 @@ DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 DIST_TEST=do
 # parallel fails sometimes...
 
-myconf="CXX=$(tc-getCXX) CXXFLAGS=${CXXFLAGS}"
+src_configure() {
+	myconf="CXX=$(tc-getCXX) CXXFLAGS=${CXXFLAGS}"
+	perl-module_src_configure
+}
 
 src_install() {
 	perl-module_src_install
diff --git a/dev-perl/Search-Xapian/Search-Xapian-1.2.25.5.ebuild b/dev-perl/Search-Xapian/Search-Xapian-1.2.25.5.ebuild
index e7e3101f4ac30..0c320bfdd6199 100644
--- a/dev-perl/Search-Xapian/Search-Xapian-1.2.25.5.ebuild
+++ b/dev-perl/Search-Xapian/Search-Xapian-1.2.25.5.ebuild
@@ -26,7 +26,10 @@ DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 DIST_TEST=do
 # parallel fails sometimes...
 
-myconf="CXX=$(tc-getCXX) CXXFLAGS=${CXXFLAGS}"
+src_configure() {
+	myconf="CXX=$(tc-getCXX) CXXFLAGS=${CXXFLAGS}"
+	perl-module_src_configure
+}
 
 src_install() {
 	perl-module_src_install