diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/perl/libparse-yapp-perl_1.21.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/perl/libparse-yapp-perl_1.21.bb
index d7959df66e..be9704a313 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/perl/libparse-yapp-perl_1.21.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/perl/libparse-yapp-perl_1.21.bb
@@ -18,4 +18,8 @@ S = "${WORKDIR}/Parse-Yapp-${PV}"
 
 inherit cpan
 
+do_install:append() {
+    sed -i "s:^#!.*:#!/usr/bin/env perl:" ${D}${bindir}/yapp
+}
+
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"