diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl-cross/files/0001-Makefile-correctly-list-modules-when-cleaning-them.patch b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl-cross/files/0001-Makefile-correctly-list-modules-when-cleaning-them.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 80388fa9b0..0000000000
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl-cross/files/0001-Makefile-correctly-list-modules-when-cleaning-them.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-From 7b8d819e012c24df228a313beb86e1942611c904 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Alexander Kanavin <alex@linutronix.de>
-Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2022 13:00:12 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH] Makefile: correctly list modules when cleaning them
-
-Upstream-Status: Submitted [https://github.com/arsv/perl-cross/pull/133]
-Signed-off-by: Alexander Kanavin <alex@linutronix.de>
----
- Makefile | 2 +-
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
-index 6b35fb0..9ef9324 100644
---- a/Makefile
-+++ b/Makefile
-@@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ clean-subdirs:
- 
- # assuming modules w/o Makefiles were never built and need no cleaning
- clean-modules: config.h
--	@for i in $(modules disabled); do \
-+	@for i in $(modules) $(disabled); do \
- 		test -f $$i/Makefile && \
- 		touch $$i/Makefile && \
- 		$(MAKE) -C $$i clean \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl-cross/files/0001-Makefile-do-not-clean-config.h-xconfig.h.patch b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl-cross/files/0001-Makefile-do-not-clean-config.h-xconfig.h.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index cbb935c71b..0000000000
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl-cross/files/0001-Makefile-do-not-clean-config.h-xconfig.h.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-From ade4a70308d3b9d79cc3db841c0f60385780fe1a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Alexander Kanavin <alex@linutronix.de>
-Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2022 13:45:20 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH] Makefile: do not clean config.h/xconfig.h
-
-These are generated by ./configure and not by make.
-
-Upstream-Status: Submitted [https://github.com/arsv/perl-cross/pull/134]
-Signed-off-by: Alexander Kanavin <alex@linutronix.de>
----
- Makefile | 1 -
- 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
-index 9ef9324..3de2c2e 100644
---- a/Makefile
-+++ b/Makefile
-@@ -473,7 +473,6 @@ clean-generated-files:
- 	-rm -f uudmap.h opmini.c generate_uudmap$X bitcount.h $(CONFIGPM)
- 	-rm -f git_version.h lib/re.pm lib/Config_git.pl
- 	-rm -f perlmini.c perlmain.c
--	-rm -f config.h xconfig.h
- 	-rm -f pod/perlmodlib.pod
- 	-rm -f ext.libs static.list
- 	-rm -f $(patsubst %,%/ppport.h,$(mkppport_lst))
--- 
-2.30.2
-
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl-cross/perlcross_1.4.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl-cross/perlcross_1.4.bb
index 9b2889647f..17ce901646 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl-cross/perlcross_1.4.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl-cross/perlcross_1.4.bb
@@ -15,8 +15,6 @@ SRC_URI = "https://github.com/arsv/perl-cross/releases/download/${PV}/perl-cross
            file://0001-perl-cross-add-LDFLAGS-when-linking-libperl.patch \
            file://determinism.patch \
            file://0001-Makefile-check-the-file-if-patched-or-not.patch \
-           file://0001-Makefile-correctly-list-modules-when-cleaning-them.patch \
-           file://0001-Makefile-do-not-clean-config.h-xconfig.h.patch \
            file://0001-configure_func.sh-Add-_GNU_SOURCE-define-and-functio.patch \
            "
 UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI = "https://github.com/arsv/perl-cross/releases/"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl_5.36.0.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl_5.36.0.bb
index ead7dace16..2dc558aaa5 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl_5.36.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl_5.36.0.bb
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ SRC_URI:append:class-target = " \
 
 SRC_URI[perl.sha256sum] = "e26085af8ac396f62add8a533c3a0ea8c8497d836f0689347ac5abd7b7a4e00a"
 
-S = "${WORKDIR}/perl-${PV}"
+B = "${WORKDIR}/perl-${PV}-build"
 
 inherit upstream-version-is-even update-alternatives
 
@@ -48,7 +48,10 @@ export ENC2XS_NO_COMMENTS = "1"
 CFLAGS += "-D_GNU_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"
 
 do_configure:prepend() {
-    cp -rfp ${STAGING_DATADIR_NATIVE}/perl-cross/* ${S}
+    rm -rf ${B}
+    cp -rfp ${S} ${B}
+    cp -rfp ${STAGING_DATADIR_NATIVE}/perl-cross/* ${B}
+    cd ${B}
 }
 
 do_configure:class-target() {
@@ -116,7 +119,6 @@ print(datetime.fromtimestamp($SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH, timezone.utc).strftime('%a %b %
             ")"
         echo "#define PERL_BUILD_DATE \"$PERL_BUILD_DATE\"" >> config.h
     fi
-    oe_runmake clean
 }
 
 do_compile() {