diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos/config/env/dev-lang/perl b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos/config/env/dev-lang/perl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..38d1bf6f8d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos/config/env/dev-lang/perl
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+if [[ ${EBUILD_PHASE} == configure ]]; then
+  if tc-is-cross-compiler; then
+    append-cflags "-fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing"
+  fi
+fi