--- /dev/null
+commit 582d5734cfcd11de7563366f9788ea72803277e6
+Author: Stefan Schantl <stefan.schantl@ipfire.org>
+Date: Sat Apr 4 15:33:58 2015 +0200
+
+ perl.macro: Add "perl_version".
+
+ This variable is used to store the current used perl version, which
+ will be used in various external perl modules to track API dependencies.
+
+diff --git a/macros/perl.macro b/macros/perl.macro
+index b29e028..aa8fa81 100644
+--- a/macros/perl.macro
++++ b/macros/perl.macro
+@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ perl_vendorarch = %(eval "$(%{perl} -V:installvendorarch)"; echo ${installvendor
+ perl_vendorlib = %(eval "$(%{perl} -V:installvendorlib)"; echo ${installvendorlib})
+ perl_archlib = %(eval "$(%{perl} -V:installarchlib)"; echo ${installarchlib})
+ perl_privlib = %(eval "$(%{perl} -V:installprivlib)"; echo ${installprivlib})
++perl_version = %(eval "$(%{perl} -V:version)"; echo ${version})
+
+ perl_all_paths = {%{perl_vendorarch},%{perl_vendorlib},%{perl_archlib},%{perl_privlib}}
+