diff --git a/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libdb/libdbd-sqlite-perl_1.68.bb b/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libdb/libdbd-sqlite-perl_1.68.bb
index c7baeab6be..48ef7fe400 100644
--- a/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libdb/libdbd-sqlite-perl_1.68.bb
+++ b/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libdb/libdbd-sqlite-perl_1.68.bb
@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@ do_install:append() {
 do_install_ptest() {
 	cp -r ${B}/MANIFEST ${D}${PTEST_PATH}
 	chown -R root:root ${D}${PTEST_PATH}
+	# the t/virtual_table/11_filcontent_fulltext tests load these files directly
+	cp -r ${S}/lib ${D}${PTEST_PATH}
+	cp -r ${S}/inc ${D}${PTEST_PATH}
 }
 
 RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += " \