diff --git a/perl.changes b/perl.changes
index c73dc74..7c873ee 100644
--- a/perl.changes
+++ b/perl.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+* Tue Jan 22 2013 Oleg Girko <ol+mer@infoserver.ru> - 5.12.1
+- Use newly built perl instead of installed one to edit patchlevel.h.
+
 * Tue Jan 22 2013 Oleg Girko <ol+mer@infoserver.ru> - 5.12.1
 - Disable multilib for 64-bit architectures.
 
diff --git a/perl.spec b/perl.spec
index bf7643b..97418b8 100644
--- a/perl.spec
+++ b/perl.spec
@@ -849,12 +849,12 @@ chmod -R u+w $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/*
 
 # Local patch tracking
 cd $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/perl5/%{perl_version}/%{perl_archname}/CORE/
-perl -x patchlevel.h 'Fedora Patch1: Removes date check, Fedora/RHEL specific'
+%{new_perl} -x patchlevel.h 'Fedora Patch1: Removes date check, Fedora/RHEL specific'
 %ifnarch sparc64
-perl -x patchlevel.h 'Fedora Patch2: Work around annoying rpath issue'
+%{new_perl} -x patchlevel.h 'Fedora Patch2: Work around annoying rpath issue'
 %endif
 %ifarch %{multilib_64_archs}
-perl -x patchlevel.h 'Fedora Patch3: support for libdir64'
+%{new_perl} -x patchlevel.h 'Fedora Patch3: support for libdir64'
 %endif
 rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/*.0