diff --git a/wget-fix-pod-syntax.diff b/wget-fix-pod-syntax.diff
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ee37a61
--- /dev/null
+++ b/wget-fix-pod-syntax.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+Index: wget-1.14/doc/texi2pod.pl
+===================================================================
+--- wget-1.14.orig/doc/texi2pod.pl
++++ wget-1.14/doc/texi2pod.pl
+@@ -291,10 +291,10 @@ while(<$inf>) {
+ 	if (defined $1) {
+             my $thing = $1;
+             if ($ic =~ /\@asis/) {
+-                $_ = "\n=item $thing\n";
++                $_ = "\n=item Z<>$thing\n";
+             } else {
+                 # Entity escapes prevent munging by the <> processing below.
+-                $_ = "\n=item $ic\&LT;$thing\&GT;\n";
++                $_ = "\n=item Z<>$ic\&LT;$thing\&GT;\n";
+             }
+ 	} else {
+ 	    $_ = "\n=item $ic\n";
diff --git a/wget.changes b/wget.changes
index 3299c99..b8906fb 100644
--- a/wget.changes
+++ b/wget.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Jun 20 13:29:01 UTC 2013 - coolo@suse.com
+
+- add wget-fix-pod-syntax.diff to fix build with perl 5.18
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu May  2 17:50:50 UTC 2013 - p.drouand@gmail.com
 
diff --git a/wget.spec b/wget.spec
index 217ed87..b2e1b2f 100644
--- a/wget.spec
+++ b/wget.spec
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ Patch0:         wgetrc.patch
 Patch1:         wget-libproxy.patch
 Patch5:         wget-1.14-openssl-no-intern.patch
 Patch6:         wget-1.14-no-ssl-comp.patch
+# PATCH-FIX-OPENSUSE fix pod syntax for perl 5.18 coolo@suse.de
+Patch7:         wget-fix-pod-syntax.diff
 BuildRequires:  libpng-devel
 %if 0%{suse_version} > 1110
 BuildRequires:  libproxy-devel
@@ -54,6 +56,7 @@ This can be done in script files or via the command line.
 %endif
 %patch5
 %patch6
+%patch7 -p1
 
 %build
 %if 0%{suse_version} > 1110