diff --git a/meta/classes/cpan-base.bbclass b/meta/classes/cpan-base.bbclass
index 55ac052695..577fcd63ce 100644
--- a/meta/classes/cpan-base.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/cpan-base.bbclass
@@ -7,27 +7,7 @@ FILES_${PN} += "${libdir}/perl ${datadir}/perl"
 DEPENDS  += "${@["perl", "perl-native"][(bb.data.inherits_class('native', d))]}"
 RDEPENDS_${PN} += "${@["perl", ""][(bb.data.inherits_class('native', d))]}"
 
-PERL_OWN_DIR = "${@["", "/perl-native"][(bb.data.inherits_class('native', d))]}"
-
-# Determine the staged version of perl from the perl configuration file
-# Assign vardepvalue, because otherwise signature is changed before and after
-# perl is built (from None to real version in config.sh).
-get_perl_version[vardepvalue] = "${PERL_OWN_DIR}"
-def get_perl_version(d):
-    import re
-    cfg = d.expand('${STAGING_LIBDIR}${PERL_OWN_DIR}/perl/config.sh')
-    try:
-        f = open(cfg, 'r')
-    except IOError:
-        return None
-    l = f.readlines();
-    f.close();
-    r = re.compile("^version='(\d*\.\d*\.\d*)'")
-    for s in l:
-        m = r.match(s)
-        if m:
-            return m.group(1)
-    return None
+inherit perl-version
 
 def is_target(d):
     if not bb.data.inherits_class('native', d):
@@ -36,5 +16,3 @@ def is_target(d):
 
 PERLLIBDIRS = "${libdir}/perl"
 PERLLIBDIRS_class-native = "${libdir}/perl-native"
-PERLVERSION := "${@get_perl_version(d)}"
-PERLVERSION[vardepvalue] = ""
diff --git a/meta/classes/perl-version.bbclass b/meta/classes/perl-version.bbclass
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..fafe68a775
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/classes/perl-version.bbclass
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+PERL_OWN_DIR = "${@["", "/perl-native"][(bb.data.inherits_class('native', d))]}"
+
+# Determine the staged version of perl from the perl configuration file
+# Assign vardepvalue, because otherwise signature is changed before and after
+# perl is built (from None to real version in config.sh).
+get_perl_version[vardepvalue] = "${PERL_OWN_DIR}"
+def get_perl_version(d):
+    import re
+    cfg = d.expand('${STAGING_LIBDIR}${PERL_OWN_DIR}/perl/config.sh')
+    try:
+        f = open(cfg, 'r')
+    except IOError:
+        return None
+    l = f.readlines();
+    f.close();
+    r = re.compile("^version='(\d*\.\d*\.\d*)'")
+    for s in l:
+        m = r.match(s)
+        if m:
+            return m.group(1)
+    return None
+
+PERLVERSION := "${@get_perl_version(d)}"
+PERLVERSION[vardepvalue] = ""