diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/libxml-simple-perl_2.24.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/libxml-simple-perl_2.24.bb
index 0cf2eebda4..f9d00d2e28 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/libxml-simple-perl_2.24.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/libxml-simple-perl_2.24.bb
@@ -19,6 +19,6 @@ S = "${WORKDIR}/XML-Simple-${PV}"
 
 EXTRA_PERLFLAGS = "-I ${PERLHOSTLIB}"
 
-inherit cpan
+inherit cpan ptest-perl
 
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"