diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
index cbb730363ff..63091cd92f5 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
@@ -15065,6 +15065,8 @@ let self = _self // overrides; _self = with self; {
     meta = {
       description = "Line wrapping module with support for multibyte, fullwidth, and combining characters and languages without whitespaces between words";
       license = with stdenv.lib.licenses; [ artistic1 gpl2 ];
+      # bogus use of glibc, pretty sure, think this is what we have glibcLocales for?
+      broken = stdenv.hostPlatform.libc != "glibc";
     };
   };