diff --git a/percona-toolkit.changes b/percona-toolkit.changes
index af7f6a2..436fb78 100644
--- a/percona-toolkit.changes
+++ b/percona-toolkit.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun Nov 11 13:16:38 UTC 2012 - andreas.stieger@gmx.de
+
+- fix SLE 11 build by adding alternative perl macros
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Oct 16 20:34:53 UTC 2012 - andreas.stieger@gmx.de
 
diff --git a/percona-toolkit.spec b/percona-toolkit.spec
index bde68b8..febf8ff 100644
--- a/percona-toolkit.spec
+++ b/percona-toolkit.spec
@@ -25,7 +25,11 @@ Release:        0
 Url:            https://www.percona.com/software/percona-toolkit/
 Source:         https://www.percona.com/redir/downloads/%{name}/%{version}/percona-toolkit-%{version}.tar.gz
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
+%if 0%{?suse_version} < 1140
+Requires:       perl = %{perl_version}
+%else
 %{perl_requires}
+%endif
 Requires:       perl(DBD::mysql) >= 1.0
 Requires:       perl(DBI) >= 1.13
 Requires:       perl(IO::Socket::SSL)
@@ -59,6 +63,10 @@ make %{?_smp_mflags}
 %install
 %perl_make_install
 %perl_process_packlist
+%if 0%{?suse_version} < 1130
+%__rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%perl_vendorarch/auto/%{name}
+%__rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/var/adm/perl-modules/%{name}
+%endif
 
 %clean
 rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT