diff --git a/make/swig.mk b/make/swig.mk
index fb27893a..8a51a879 100644
--- a/make/swig.mk
+++ b/make/swig.mk
@@ -80,8 +80,8 @@ else ifeq ($(SWIG_TARGET),perl)
   SWIG_TARGET_EXT            ?= pm
   SWIG_OPTS                  ?= -perl
   PERL_VERSION               ?= $(patsubst v%,%,$(shell perl -e 'print $$^V;'))
-  PERL_BASE_DIR              ?= $(ENV_PREFIX)/usr/lib/perl5
-  PERL_CORE_DIR              ?= $(PERL_BASE_DIR)/$(PERL_VERSION)/$(ARCH)-linux-thread-multi/CORE/
+  PERL_BASE_DIR              ?= $(ENV_PREFIX)$(firstword $(wildcard /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/lib/perl5))
+  PERL_CORE_DIR              ?= $(firstword $(wildcard $(PERL_BASE_DIR)/$(PERL_VERSION)/$(ARCH)-linux-thread-multi/CORE/ $(PERL_BASE_DIR)/CORE))
   PERL_VENDOR_DIR            ?= $(PERL_BASE_DIR)/vendor_perl/$(PERL_VERSION)/$(ARCH)-linux-thread-multi
   INCLUDE                    += -I$(PERL_CORE_DIR)
   SWIG_CLEAN                 += $(wildcard *.$(SWIG_TARGET_EXT))