--- a/components/perl/perl520/Makefile	Mon Feb 29 17:08:45 2016 -0800
+++ b/components/perl/perl520/Makefile	Sun Feb 28 23:58:10 2016 +0100
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 #
 # CDDL HEADER END
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2015, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+# Copyright (c) 2015, 2016, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
 #
 include ../../../make-rules/shared-macros.mk
 
@@ -130,6 +130,13 @@
 	'-e "s|\(^u=\).*|\1|" ' \
 	'-e "s|\(^cc\).*|\1|" '
 
+# Perl escapes certain chracters to protect them from shell. See function
+# 'quote()' in Makefile.SH. This escaped path shows in test results, so we have
+# to take it into account.
+COMPONENT_TEST_TRANSFORMS += \
+	'-e "s|$(subst -,\\\\\\\\-,$(@D))|\\$$(@D)|g" '
+
+
 #
 # perl's install path for sparc is based off the value of the
 # "arch" command.  So we must package that way also.