diff --git a/steps/perl-5.22.4/pass1.sh b/steps/perl-5.22.4/pass1.sh
index 76f9f5a5..69318e77 100755
--- a/steps/perl-5.22.4/pass1.sh
+++ b/steps/perl-5.22.4/pass1.sh
@@ -14,10 +14,10 @@ src_prepare() {
     mv Compress-Raw-Zlib_config.in cpan/Compress-Raw-Zlib/config.in
 
     # Remove miscellaneous pregenerated files
-    rm -f Porting/Glossary \
-        dist/Devel-PPPort/parts/apidoc.fnc Configure config_h.SH \
+    rm Porting/Glossary \
+        cpan/Devel-PPPort/parts/apidoc.fnc Configure config_h.SH \
         cpan/Win32API-File/cFile.pc cpan/Sys-Syslog/win32/Win32.pm \
-        dist/ExtUtils-CBuilder/Makefile.PL cpan/Devel-PPPort/parts/apidoc.fnc
+        dist/ExtUtils-CBuilder/Makefile.PL
     rm win32/perlexe.ico
     rm -r cpan/Compress-Raw-Zlib/zlib-src
 
@@ -27,15 +27,13 @@ src_prepare() {
 
     # Regenerate other prebuilt header files
     # Taken from headers of regen scripts
-    rm -f lib/warnings.pm warnings.h regnodes.h reentr.h reentr.c \
-          overload.h opcode.h opnames.h pp_proto.h \
-          keywords.h embed.h embedvar.h perlapi.{c,h} \
-          proto.h lib/overload/numbers.pm regcharclass.h perly.{tab,h,act} \
-          mg_{raw.h,vtable.h} keywords.c l1_char_class_tab.h \
-          lib/feature.pm lib/B/Op_private.pm lib/unicore/uni_keywords.pl \
-          miniperlmain.c unicode_constants.h uni_keywords.h \
-          charclass_invlists.h ebcdic_tables.h mg_names.inc overload.inc \
-          packsizetables.c overload.c mg_names.c
+    rm lib/warnings.pm warnings.h regnodes.h reentr.h reentr.c overload.h \
+        opcode.h opnames.h pp_proto.h keywords.h embed.h embedvar.h \
+        perlapi.{c,h} proto.h lib/overload/numbers.pm regcharclass.h \
+        perly.{tab,h,act} mg_{raw.h,vtable.h} keywords.c l1_char_class_tab.h \
+        lib/feature.pm lib/B/Op_private.pm miniperlmain.c unicode_constants.h \
+        charclass_invlists.h ebcdic_tables.h packsizetables.c overload.c \
+        mg_names.c
     perl regen.pl
     perl regen_perly.pl -b bison-2.3
     perl regen/keywords.pl
diff --git a/steps/perl-5.24.4/files/Compress-Raw-Zlib_config.in b/steps/perl-5.24.4/files/Compress-Raw-Zlib_config.in
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3bbcf2f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/steps/perl-5.24.4/files/Compress-Raw-Zlib_config.in
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+BUILD_ZLIB      = False
+INCLUDE         = /usr/include
+LIB             = /usr/lib/i386-unknown-linux-musl
+OLD_ZLIB        = False
+GZIP_OS_CODE    = AUTO_DETECT
diff --git a/steps/perl-5.24.4/pass1.sh b/steps/perl-5.24.4/pass1.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..28490f57
--- /dev/null
+++ b/steps/perl-5.24.4/pass1.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 fosslinux <fosslinux@aussies.space>
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+
+src_prepare() {
+    default
+
+    mv Compress-Raw-Zlib_config.in cpan/Compress-Raw-Zlib/config.in
+
+    # Remove miscellaneous pregenerated files
+    rm Porting/Glossary \
+        cpan/Devel-PPPort/parts/apidoc.fnc Configure config_h.SH \
+        cpan/Win32API-File/cFile.pc cpan/Sys-Syslog/win32/Win32.pm \
+        dist/ExtUtils-CBuilder/Makefile.PL
+    rm win32/perlexe.ico
+    rm -r cpan/Compress-Raw-Zlib/zlib-src
+
+    # Generated tests
+    rm cpan/Unicode-Collate/Collate/keys.txt \
+        cpan/Devel-PPPort/t/*.t
+
+    # Regenerate other prebuilt header files
+    # Taken from headers of regen scripts
+    rm lib/warnings.pm warnings.h regnodes.h reentr.h reentr.c overload.h \
+        opcode.h opnames.h pp_proto.h keywords.h embed.h embedvar.h \
+        perlapi.{c,h} proto.h lib/overload/numbers.pm regcharclass.h \
+        perly.{tab,h,act} mg_{raw.h,vtable.h} keywords.c l1_char_class_tab.h \
+        lib/feature.pm lib/B/Op_private.pm miniperlmain.c unicode_constants.h \
+        charclass_invlists.h ebcdic_tables.h mg_names.inc overload.inc \
+        packsizetables.inc
+    perl regen.pl
+    perl regen_perly.pl -b bison-2.3
+    perl regen/keywords.pl
+    perl regen/mk_PL_charclass.pl
+    perl regen/regcharclass.pl
+    perl regen/genpacksizetables.pl
+    perl regen/ebcdic.pl
+    perl regen/mk_invlists.pl
+    perl regen/miniperlmain.pl
+    perl regen/unicode_constants.pl
+
+    # regenerate configure
+    ln -s ../metaconfig*/.package .
+    ln -s ../metaconfig*/U .
+    metaconfig -m
+
+    # Glossary
+    sed -i -e "s:/pro/3gl/CPAN/lib/dist:${PREFIX}/lib/perl5/5.6.2:" \
+        -e "s:/pro/3gl/CPAN/perl:$PWD:" \
+        ../metaconfig*/U/mkglossary
+    chmod +x ../metaconfig*/U/mkglossary
+    ../metaconfig*/U/mkglossary > Porting/Glossary
+
+    bash cpan/Devel-PPPort/devel/mkapidoc.sh . \
+        cpan/Devel-PPPort/parts/apidoc.fnc \
+        cpan/Devel-PPPort/parts/embed.fnc
+
+    # Remove lines from MANIFEST that we have deleted
+    while read -r line; do
+        f="$(echo "${line}" | cut -d' ' -f1)"
+        if [ -e "${f}" ]; then
+            echo "${line}"
+        fi
+    done < MANIFEST > MANIFEST.new
+    mv MANIFEST.new MANIFEST
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+    ./Configure -des \
+        -Dprefix="${PREFIX}" \
+        -Dcc=gcc \
+        -Dusedl=false \
+        -Ddate=':' \
+        -Dccflags="-U__DATE__ -U__TIME__" \
+        -Darchname="i386-linux" \
+        -Dmyhostname="(none)" \
+        -Dmaildomain="(none)"
+}
+
+src_install() {
+    default
+
+    # Remove messed up manpages
+    rm "${DESTDIR}/"*.0
+}
diff --git a/steps/perl-5.24.4/patches/0001-Revert-regen-mk_PL_charclass.pl-Suppress-extra-null-.patch b/steps/perl-5.24.4/patches/0001-Revert-regen-mk_PL_charclass.pl-Suppress-extra-null-.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e848a307
--- /dev/null
+++ b/steps/perl-5.24.4/patches/0001-Revert-regen-mk_PL_charclass.pl-Suppress-extra-null-.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com>
+SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 fosslinux <fosslinux@aussies.space>
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: Artistic-1.0
+
+This commit does not affect correctness of the script, and negative indexes are
+not supported in Perl 5.22.
+
+From c5ea74f1efd612cda79d6ba3cb1430afdc2ab970 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Samuel Tyler <fosslinux@aussies.space>
+Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2025 12:21:46 +1000
+Subject: [PATCH] Revert "regen/mk_PL_charclass.pl: Suppress extra null array
+ element"
+
+This reverts commit e8368231412c57222c53c0dc1fac7f711fa051e2.
+---
+ regen/mk_PL_charclass.pl | 2 --
+ 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git perl-5.24.4/regen/mk_PL_charclass.pl perl-5.24.4/regen/mk_PL_charclass.pl
+index 5b609e530b..0bee1ac2a0 100644
+--- perl-5.24.4/regen/mk_PL_charclass.pl
++++ perl-5.24.4/regen/mk_PL_charclass.pl
+@@ -384,8 +384,6 @@ foreach my $charset (get_supported_code_pages()) {
+ 
+         $out[$index] .= ",\n";
+     }
+-    $out[-1] =~ s/,$//;     # No trailing comma in the final entry
+-
+     print $out_fh join "", @out;
+     print $out_fh "\n" . get_conditional_compile_line_end();
+ }
+-- 
+2.49.1
+
diff --git a/steps/perl-5.24.4/patches/0002-Revert-regen-regcharclass.pl-avoid-autoderef-feature.patch b/steps/perl-5.24.4/patches/0002-Revert-regen-regcharclass.pl-avoid-autoderef-feature.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2601f3e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/steps/perl-5.24.4/patches/0002-Revert-regen-regcharclass.pl-avoid-autoderef-feature.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Aaron Crane <arc@cpan.org>
+SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 fosslinux <fosslinux@aussies.space>
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: Artistic-1.0
+
+The patch avoided autoderef experimental feature by using a new,
+non-experimental feature not supported in Perl 5.22.
+
+From dbec508168fd65dae2aff413fe5184f5f457779d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Samuel Tyler <fosslinux@aussies.space>
+Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2025 14:45:48 +1000
+Subject: [PATCH] Revert "regen/regcharclass.pl: avoid autoderef feature"
+
+This reverts commit de6cb0abd243e5772b9783a2cbeef5755a8267d6.
+---
+ regen/regcharclass.pl | 5 +++--
+ 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git perl-5.24.4/regen/regcharclass.pl perl-5.24.4/regen/regcharclass.pl
+index 9115eafeb6..279ca013d0 100755
+--- perl-5.24.4/regen/regcharclass.pl
++++ perl-5.24.4/regen/regcharclass.pl
+@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ use strict;
+ use 5.008;
+ use warnings;
+ use warnings FATAL => 'all';
++no warnings 'experimental::autoderef';
+ use Data::Dumper;
+ $Data::Dumper::Useqq= 1;
+ our $hex_fmt= "0x%02X";
+@@ -874,7 +875,7 @@ sub calculate_mask(@) {
+     my @final_results;
+     foreach my $count (reverse sort { $a <=> $b } keys %hash) {
+         my $need = 2 ** $count;     # Need 8 values for 3 differing bits, etc
+-        foreach my $bits (sort keys $hash{$count}->%*) {
++        foreach my $bits (sort keys $hash{$count}) {
+ 
+             print STDERR __LINE__, ": For $count bit(s) difference ($bits), need $need; have ", scalar @{$hash{$count}{$bits}}, "\n" if DEBUG;
+ 
+@@ -962,7 +963,7 @@ sub calculate_mask(@) {
+     # individually.
+     my @individuals;
+     foreach my $count (reverse sort { $a <=> $b } keys %hash) {
+-        foreach my $bits (sort keys $hash{$count}->%*) {
++        foreach my $bits (sort keys $hash{$count}) {
+             foreach my $remaining (@{$hash{$count}{$bits}}) {
+ 
+                 # If we already know about this value, just ignore it.
+-- 
+2.49.1
+
diff --git a/steps/perl-5.24.4/sources b/steps/perl-5.24.4/sources
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7c0c8c39
--- /dev/null
+++ b/steps/perl-5.24.4/sources
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.24.4.tar.xz 7f080287ff64750270689843ae945f02159a33cb8f2fc910248c15befba5db84
+git://github.com/Perl/metaconfig~5.26.1 https://github.com/Perl/metaconfig/archive/5.26.1.tar.gz 4641f5127a55cf2e1e8f9253ec27fba10b5b77076b4163e7f4bdc7f670d1aaf0