--- a/make-rules/shared-macros.mk	Mon Mar 21 13:11:55 2016 -0700
+++ b/make-rules/shared-macros.mk	Mon Mar 21 13:57:26 2016 -0700
@@ -549,7 +549,7 @@
 
 # This is the default BUILD version of perl
 # Not necessarily the system's default version, i.e. /usr/bin/perl
-PERL_VERSION ?=  5.12
+PERL_VERSION ?= 5.22
 
 PERL_VERSIONS = 5.12 5.20 5.22