diff --git a/meta/classes-recipe/cpan_build.bbclass b/meta/classes-recipe/cpan_build.bbclass
index 026859b6c7..03289dc21c 100644
--- a/meta/classes-recipe/cpan_build.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes-recipe/cpan_build.bbclass
@@ -25,6 +25,13 @@ cpan_build_do_configure () {
 	fi
 
 	perl Build.PL --installdirs vendor --destdir ${D} \
+                        --create_packlist=0 \
+                        --config installhtml1dir= \
+                        --config installhtml3dir= \
+                        --config installsitehtml1dir= \
+                        --config installsitehtml3dir= \
+                        --config installvendorhtml1dir= \
+                        --config installvendorhtml3dir= \
 			${EXTRA_CPAN_BUILD_FLAGS}
 
 	# Build.PLs can exit with success without generating a
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/libmodule-build-perl_0.4234.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/libmodule-build-perl_0.4234.bb
index 1c01a59f5d..3ec712cb8e 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/libmodule-build-perl_0.4234.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/libmodule-build-perl_0.4234.bb
@@ -32,8 +32,6 @@ do_patch_module_build () {
 
 do_patch[postfuncs] += "do_patch_module_build"
 
-EXTRA_CPAN_BUILD_FLAGS = "--create_packlist=0"
-
 do_install:prepend () {
 	# We do not have a recipe for libpod-parser-perl which is for
 	# documentation (and is deprecated in favor of Pod::Simple)