diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl-ptest.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl-ptest.inc
index 15afe2dab4..6999e6be37 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl-ptest.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl-ptest.inc
@@ -42,8 +42,9 @@ python populate_packages_prepend() {
     # Put all *.t files from the lib dir in the ptest package
     # do_split_packages requires a pair of () in the regex, but we have nothing
     # to match, so use an empty pair.
-    do_split_packages(d, d.expand('${libdir}/perl/${PV}'), '.*\.t()',
-        '${PN}-ptest%s', '%s', recursive=True, match_path=True)
+    if "ptest" in d.getVar("DISTRO_FEATURES", True).split():
+        do_split_packages(d, d.expand('${libdir}/perl/${PV}'), '.*\.t()',
+            '${PN}-ptest%s', '%s', recursive=True, match_path=True)
 }
 
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += "${PN}-modules ${PN}-doc ${PN}-misc"