--- gplugin-hg-210228/perl5.old/meson.build
+++ gplugin-hg-210228/perl5/meson.build
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 	# make sure we have the perl library as well.
 	LIBPERL = []
 	if host_machine.system() != 'freebsd'
-		LIBPERL = compiler.find_library('libperl')
+		LIBPERL = compiler.find_library('perl')
 	endif
 
 	# make sure we have the gobject introspection perl module.