diff --git a/dev-perl/Data-AMF/Data-AMF-0.90.0-r1.ebuild b/dev-perl/Data-AMF/Data-AMF-0.90.0-r1.ebuild
index 4e56ff4ae41b3..f1c1192fc62aa 100644
--- a/dev-perl/Data-AMF/Data-AMF-0.90.0-r1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-perl/Data-AMF/Data-AMF-0.90.0-r1.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=5
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 src_prepare() {
 	sed -i '/^inc\/YAML.pm/d' MANIFEST || die
 	rm inc/YAML.pm || die
+	sed -i -e 's/use inc::Module::Install;/use lib q[.];\nuse inc::Module::Install;/' Makefile.PL ||
+		die "Can't patch Makefile.PL for 5.26 dot-in-inc"
 	perl-module_src_prepare
 }