--- /dev/null
+################################################################################
+#
+# perl-net-ssleay
+#
+################################################################################
+
+PERL_NET_SSLEAY_VERSION = 1.68
+PERL_NET_SSLEAY_SOURCE = Net-SSLeay-$(PERL_NET_SSLEAY_VERSION).tar.gz
+PERL_NET_SSLEAY_SITE = $(BR2_CPAN_MIRROR)/authors/id/M/MI/MIKEM
+PERL_NET_SSLEAY_DEPENDENCIES = perl openssl
+PERL_NET_SSLEAY_LICENSE = OpenSSL
+PERL_NET_SSLEAY_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE
+
+# Try as hard as possible to remedy to the brain-damage their build-system
+# suffers from: don't search for openssl, they pick the host-system one.
+PERL_NET_SSLEAY_CONF_ENV = OPENSSL_PREFIX=$(STAGING_DIR)/usr
+
+# Remove problematic single quotes in LDDLFLAGS, CCFLAGS & OPTIMIZE definition
+define PERL_NET_SSLEAY_FIX_MAKEFILE
+ $(SED) "s/^LDDLFLAGS = '\(.*\)'/LDDLFLAGS = \1/" $(@D)/Makefile
+ $(SED) "s/^CCFLAGS = '\(.*\)'/CCFLAGS = \1/" $(@D)/Makefile
+ $(SED) "s/^OPTIMIZE = '\(.*\)'/OPTIMIZE = \1/" $(@D)/Makefile
+endef
+PERL_NET_SSLEAY_POST_CONFIGURE_HOOKS += PERL_NET_SSLEAY_FIX_MAKEFILE
+
+$(eval $(perl-package))