diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/default.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/default.nix
index d9158ad55ab..6e416a35150 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/default.nix
@@ -71,6 +71,9 @@ let
 
     enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
+    # FIXME needs gcc 4.9 in bootstrap tools
+    hardening_stackprotector = false;
+
     preConfigure =
       ''
         configureFlags="$configureFlags -Dprefix=$out -Dman1dir=$out/share/man/man1 -Dman3dir=$out/share/man/man3"