diff --git a/tex/texlive-bibtex-extra/Portfile b/tex/texlive-bibtex-extra/Portfile
index 02eff4ba066..2d16c46c3d8 100644
--- a/tex/texlive-bibtex-extra/Portfile
+++ b/tex/texlive-bibtex-extra/Portfile
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ PortGroup           texlive 1.0
 
 name                texlive-bibtex-extra
 version             78219
-revision            2
+revision            3
 
 categories          tex
 maintainers         {dports @drkp}
@@ -53,7 +53,23 @@ post-patch {
     } {
         reinplace "s|@@TEXMFDIST@@|${texlive_texmfdist}|" ${worksrcpath}/${f}
     }
+
+    # Fix perl paths for any perl scripts that have non-core
+    # dependencies.
+    reinplace -E "1 s,^#! ?(/usr/bin/env perl|/usr/bin/perl),#!${prefix}/bin/perl${perl5.major}," \
+        ${worksrcpath}/runfiles/texmf-dist/scripts/crossrefware/bbl2bib.pl \
+        ${worksrcpath}/runfiles/texmf-dist/scripts/crossrefware/bibdoiadd.pl \
+        ${worksrcpath}/runfiles/texmf-dist/scripts/crossrefware/bibmradd.pl \
+        ${worksrcpath}/runfiles/texmf-dist/scripts/crossrefware/bibzbladd.pl
 }
 
+PortGroup           perl5 1.0
+perl5.branches      5.34
+
+# dependencies for crossrefware (bbl2bib, bibdoiadd, bibmradd, bibzbladd)
+depends_run-append  port:p${perl5.major}-libwww-perl \
+                    port:p${perl5.major}-uri \
+                    port:p${perl5.major}-json
+
 
 texlive.texmfport