diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index 11dfebb4c..5e3256ea1 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -74,6 +74,10 @@
 <listitem><para>May 12th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Basic Network: Added
 $(hostname) to /etc/hosts, without it perl's test doesn't pass.</para></listitem>
 
+<listitem><para>May 12th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 05 - Installing Perl:
+Add extra commands to build certain modules into Perl. This is to
+accomadate the Coreutils "make check". Partially fixes bug #528.</para></listitem>
+
 <listitem><para>May 12th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 05 - Installing Gzip:
 Nothing in Chapter 6 checks for or uses the uncompress command,
 therefore we shouldn't create it.</para></listitem>
diff --git a/chapter05/perl-inst.xml b/chapter05/perl-inst.xml
index 46b480df8..bc66b3950 100644
--- a/chapter05/perl-inst.xml
+++ b/chapter05/perl-inst.xml
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 <title>Installation of Perl</title>
 
 <para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../perl-&perl-version;-libc.patch
+chmod u+w hints/linux.sh
+echo 'static_ext="IO re Fcntl"' >> hints/linux.sh
 ./configure.gnu --prefix=/stage1 &amp;&amp;
 make perl
 make utilities &amp;&amp;