diff --git a/steps/manifest b/steps/manifest
index 54b07ab6..578b4ac4 100644
--- a/steps/manifest
+++ b/steps/manifest
@@ -156,6 +156,8 @@ build: flex-2.5.33
 build: bison-2.3
 build: bison-3.4.2
 build: dist-3.5
+build: perl-Devel-Tokenizer-C-0.11
+build: perl-5.8.9
 build: perl-5.10.1
 build: perl-5.32.1
 uninstall: perl-5.6.2 perl-5.10.1
diff --git a/steps/perl-5.8.9/pass1.sh b/steps/perl-5.8.9/pass1.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..feed0656
--- /dev/null
+++ b/steps/perl-5.8.9/pass1.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 fosslinux <fosslinux@aussies.space>
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+
+src_prepare() {
+    default
+
+    # no idea why this is needed
+    sed -i "s/Sigjmp_buf/sigjmp_buf/" cop.h
+
+    # Remove miscellaneous pregenerated files
+    rm Porting/Glossary lib/unicore/mktables.lst \
+        ext/Sys/Syslog/win32/Win32.pm ext/Win32API/File/cFile.pc \
+        ext/Devel/PPPort/parts/apidoc.fnc Configure config_h.SH \
+        x2p/a2p.c
+    # Generated tests
+    rm ext/Devel/PPPort/t/*.t
+
+    # Remove jpl
+    rm -r jpl
+
+    # Regenerate bison files
+    sed -i '/yydestruct/d' perly.y
+    rm -f perly.c perly.h
+    bison -d perly.y
+    ln -s perly.tab.h perly.h
+    ln -s perly.tab.c perly.c
+
+    # toke.c Perl_keyword
+    # bit before the generated bit
+    sed '/The following code was generated/,$d' toke.c | head -n -1 > toke.c.new
+    perl perl_keyword.pl >> toke.c.new
+    # bit after the generated bit
+    # sed with two -e does not appear to be working with our sed
+    sed '1,/The following code was generated/d' toke.c | sed '1,/^}$/d' >> toke.c.new
+    mv toke.c.new toke.c
+
+    # Regenerate other prebuilt header files
+    # Taken from headers of regen scripts
+    rm -f lib/warnings.pm warnings.h regnodes.h reentr.h reentr.c reentr.inc \
+          overload.h overload.c opcode.h opnames.h pp_proto.h \
+          pp.sym keywords.h embed.h embedvar.h global.sym perlapi.c perlapi.h \
+          proto.h lib/overload/numbers.pm pod/perlintern.pod pod/perlapi.pod \
+          pod/perlmodlib.pod perl/perltoc.pod ext/ByteLoader/byterun.{h,c} \
+          ext/B/B/Asmdata.pm
+    perl regen.pl
+
+    # regenerate configure
+    ln -s ../metaconfig*/.package .
+    ln -s ../metaconfig*/U .
+    metaconfig -m
+
+    # Glossary
+    pushd Porting
+    ln -s /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.2/U .
+    makegloss
+    popd
+
+    bash ext/Devel/PPPort/devel/mkapidoc.sh . \
+        ext/Devel/PPPort/parts/apidoc.fnc \
+        ext/Devel/PPPort/parts/embed.fnc
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+    rm MANIFEST # make Configure script happy
+    ./Configure -des \
+        -Dprefix="${PREFIX}" \
+        -Dcc=gcc \
+        -Dyacc='bison -y' \
+        -Dusedl=false \
+        -Ddate=':' \
+        -Dccflags="-U__DATE__ -U__TIME__" \
+        -Darchname="i386-linux" \
+        -Dmyhostname="(none)" \
+        -Dmaildomain="(none)"
+}
+
+src_install() {
+    default
+
+    # Remove messed up manpages
+    rm "${DESTDIR}/"*.0
+
+    # There are strange permissions on installed files.
+    find "${DESTDIR}${PREFIX}/lib" -type f  -exec chmod 644 {} \;
+}
diff --git a/steps/perl-5.8.9/patches/0001-Revert-Patch-Configure-doesn-t-pick-up-Hash-Util-Fie.patch b/steps/perl-5.8.9/patches/0001-Revert-Patch-Configure-doesn-t-pick-up-Hash-Util-Fie.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1c75e8a6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/steps/perl-5.8.9/patches/0001-Revert-Patch-Configure-doesn-t-pick-up-Hash-Util-Fie.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+From 0db0a3cd0dd78965cea62c7cfc3724e31fba4e8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: fosslinux <fosslinux@aussies.space>
+Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:39:45 +1000
+Subject: [PATCH] Revert "[Patch] Configure doesn't pick up
+ Hash/Util/FieldHash"
+
+It is most unclear what version of metaconfig was used for this perl.
+The commit directly preceding this is broken for this perl, and this
+commit introduces problems.
+
+This reverts commit cb6ac97976e03a65df4df6f86396e8241167307c.
+---
+ U/perl/Extensions.U | 10 ++++------
+ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/U/perl/Extensions.U b/U/perl/Extensions.U
+index b8617ff..0ba7c74 100644
+--- metaconfig-40501436c87602cc17baae64ee6b3ca26d74e354/U/perl/Extensions.U
++++ metaconfig-40501436c87602cc17baae64ee6b3ca26d74e354/U/perl/Extensions.U
+@@ -99,12 +99,10 @@ cd "$rsrc/ext"
+ set X
+ shift
+ eval $find_extensions
+-# Special case:  Add in modules that nest beyond the first level.
+-# Currently threads/shared and Hash/Util/FieldHash, since they are
+-# not picked up by the recursive find above (and adding in general
+-# recursive finding breaks SDBM_File/sdbm).
+-# A.D. 20011025 (SDBM), ajgough 20071008 (FieldHash)
+-known_extensions="$known_extensions threads/shared Hash/Util/FieldHash"
++# Special case:  Add in threads/shared since it is not picked up by the
++# recursive find above (and adding in general recursive finding breaks
++# SDBM_File/sdbm).  A.D.  10/25/2001.
++known_extensions="$known_extensions threads/shared"
+ set X $known_extensions
+ shift
+ known_extensions="$*"
+-- 
+2.49.1
+
diff --git a/steps/perl-5.8.9/sources b/steps/perl-5.8.9/sources
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1c6f0a10
--- /dev/null
+++ b/steps/perl-5.8.9/sources
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+https://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.8.9.tar.bz2 1097fbcd48ceccb2bc735d119c9db399a02a8ab9f7dc53e29e47e6a8d0d72e79
+git://github.com/Perl/metaconfig~40501436c87602cc17baae64ee6b3ca26d74e354 https://github.com/Perl/metaconfig/archive/40501436c87602cc17baae64ee6b3ca26d74e354.tar.gz 6b0c937e1aaef684a7b2f0c089bea293c7a9d255d6513e5108567f4c10e3f4dd