--- a/components/parallel/Makefile	Mon Mar 21 13:11:55 2016 -0700
+++ b/components/parallel/Makefile	Mon Mar 21 13:57:26 2016 -0700
@@ -44,9 +44,6 @@
 include $(WS_MAKE_RULES)/configure.mk
 include $(WS_MAKE_RULES)/ips.mk
 
-# Version of Perl to use in the Perl scripts in the parallel package.
-PERL_VERSION =	5.20
-
 # Set PATH to find the correct pod2man, so that the man pages can be
 # automatically generated
 COMPONENT_BUILD_ENV += \
@@ -78,6 +75,6 @@
 system-test:    $(NO_TESTS)
 
 
-REQUIRED_PACKAGES += runtime/perl-520
+REQUIRED_PACKAGES += $(PERL_PKG)
 REQUIRED_PACKAGES += shell/which
 REQUIRED_PACKAGES += system/core-os