diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl_5.38.0.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl_5.38.0.bb
index 2103a39dfa..a8623b6e84 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl_5.38.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl_5.38.0.bb
@@ -38,8 +38,10 @@ DEPENDS += "make-native"
 PERL_LIB_VER = "${@'.'.join(d.getVar('PV').split('.')[0:2])}.0"
 
 PACKAGECONFIG ??= "gdbm"
+PACKAGECONFIG:append:libc-musl = " anylocale"
 PACKAGECONFIG[bdb] = ",-Ui_db,db"
 PACKAGECONFIG[gdbm] = ",-Ui_gdbm,gdbm"
+PACKAGECONFIG[anylocale] = "-Dd_setlocale_accepts_any_locale_name=define,,"
 
 # Don't generate comments in enc2xs output files. They are not reproducible
 export ENC2XS_NO_COMMENTS = "1"