diff --git a/package/perl-http-message/Config.in b/package/perl-http-message/Config.in
index 82538cfce8..3c6849487a 100644
--- a/package/perl-http-message/Config.in
+++ b/package/perl-http-message/Config.in
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 config BR2_PACKAGE_PERL_HTTP_MESSAGE
 	bool "perl-http-message"
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_PERL_CLONE # runtime
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_PERL_ENCODE_LOCALE # runtime
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_PERL_HTTP_DATE # runtime
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_PERL_IO_HTML # runtime