diff --git a/check-version.sh b/check-version.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bbe20ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/check-version.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+URL="https://www.cpan.org/src/README.html"
+
+# Get version number from website
+VERSION=$(curl -s -L "$URL" | grep -A2 'class="latest"' | tail -n1 | grep -o -E '[0-9]{1,}\.[0-9]{1,}\.[0-9]{1,}')
+
+echo "$VERSION"
diff --git a/pkg.info b/pkg.info
index dd869bf..067996d 100644
--- a/pkg.info
+++ b/pkg.info
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 name: perl
 description: The Practical Extraction and Report Language
-version: 5.38.2
-revision: 3
+version: 5.42.0
 url: https://www.perl.org/
 license: GPL3-or-later
 architecture: any
diff --git a/source.sh b/source.sh
index 51c3fcc..4edf4b0 100644
--- a/source.sh
+++ b/source.sh
@@ -15,22 +15,26 @@ prepare() {
 # The build function is executed in the source directory
 # This function is used to compile the source code
 build() {
+  # Use system libraries
   export BUILD_ZLIB=False
   export BUILD_BZIP2=0
-  sh Configure -des                                         \
-               -Dprefix=/usr                                \
-               -Dvendorprefix=/usr                          \
-               -Dprivlib=/usr/lib/perl5/5.38/core_perl      \
-               -Darchlib=/usr/lib/perl5/5.38/core_perl      \
-               -Dsitelib=/usr/lib/perl5/5.38/site_perl      \
-               -Dsitearch=/usr/lib/perl5/5.38/site_perl     \
-               -Dvendorlib=/usr/lib/perl5/5.38/vendor_perl  \
-               -Dvendorarch=/usr/lib/perl5/5.38/vendor_perl \
-               -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1                \
-               -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3                \
-               -Dpager="/usr/bin/less -isR"                 \
-               -Duseshrplib                                 \
-               -Dusethreads
+  
+  perldir=/usr/lib/perl/${BPM_PKG_VERSION%.*}
+  sh Configure -des                                \
+               -Dprefix=/usr                       \
+               -Dvendorprefix=/usr                 \
+               -Dprivlib="$perldir"/core_perl      \
+               -Darchlib="$perldir"/core_perl      \
+               -Dsitelib="$perldir"/site_perl      \
+               -Dsitearch="$perldir"/site_perl     \
+               -Dvendorlib="$perldir"/vendor_perl  \
+               -Dvendorarch="$perldir"/vendor_perl \
+               -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1       \
+               -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3       \
+               -Dpager="/usr/bin/less -isR"        \
+               -Duseshrplib                        \
+               -Dusethreads                        \
+               -Doptimize="${CFLAGS}"
   make
 }