diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 6244980583..d43993bce5 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -463,6 +463,10 @@ message(STATUS " ")
 message(STATUS "Language bindings:")
 message(STATUS "python3 bindings: ${ENABLE_PYTHON3}")
 message(STATUS "perl bindings: ${ENABLE_PERL}")
+message(STATUS "perl vendorlib: ${PERL_VENDORLIB}")
+message(STATUS "perl vendorarch: ${PERL_VENDORARCH}")
+message(STATUS "perl privlib: ${PERL_PRIVLIB}")
+message(STATUS "perl archlib: ${PERL_ARCHLIB}")
 message(STATUS " ")
 
 message(STATUS "Utilities:")
diff --git a/swig/perl/CMakeLists.txt b/swig/perl/CMakeLists.txt
index 057b365bf7..ca4d2705e2 100644
--- a/swig/perl/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/swig/perl/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,17 @@
 include(UseSWIG)
 include(FindPerlLibs)
 
+string(SUBSTRING "${PERL_VERSION_STRING}" 0 4 PERL_VERSION_MINOR)
+
+# process cmake vendor paths to respect install prefix, use as Linux defaults below
+if (NOT CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX_INITIALIZED_TO_DEFAULT)
+        STRING(REGEX REPLACE "^/usr/" "${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/" PERL_VENDORARCH "${PERL_VENDORARCH}")
+        STRING(REGEX REPLACE "^/usr/" "${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/" PERL_VENDORLIB "${PERL_VENDORLIB}")
+endif()
+
+message(STATUS "perl install libdir: ${PERL_VENDORARCH}")
+message(STATUS "perl install archdir: ${PERL_VENDORLIB}")
+
 set(CMAKE_SWIG_FLAGS "-module" "openscap_pm")
 if (${CMAKE_VERSION} VERSION_LESS "3.8.0")
 	swig_add_module(openscap_pm perl5 ../openscap.i)
@@ -20,7 +31,7 @@ if (APPLE OR (${CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME} STREQUAL "FreeBSD"))
                 DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_DATADIR}/perl5/vendor_perl)
 else()
         install(TARGETS ${SWIG_MODULE_openscap_pm_REAL_NAME}
-               DESTINATION ${PERL_VENDORLIB})
+                DESTINATION ${PERL_VENDORARCH})
         install(PROGRAMS ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/openscap_pm.pm
-               DESTINATION ${PERL_VENDORARCH})
+                DESTINATION ${PERL_VENDORLIB})
 endif()