diff --git a/Text-Template-Simple-0.90-Fix-building-on-Perl-without-.-in-INC.patch b/Text-Template-Simple-0.90-Fix-building-on-Perl-without-.-in-INC.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9000317
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Text-Template-Simple-0.90-Fix-building-on-Perl-without-.-in-INC.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+From f9b0ae57d3eda068d9b2436743881ffdd60fff7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?Petr=20P=C3=ADsa=C5=99?= <ppisar@redhat.com>
+Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 11:23:08 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] Fix building on Perl without "." in @INC
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+Signed-off-by: Petr Písař <ppisar@redhat.com>
+---
+ builder/lib/Build/Spec.pm | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/builder/lib/Build/Spec.pm b/builder/lib/Build/Spec.pm
+index 394132a..4605be2 100644
+--- a/builder/lib/Build/Spec.pm
++++ b/builder/lib/Build/Spec.pm
+@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ BEGIN {
+ sub spec {
+     my %opt  = @_;
+     my $file = 'SPEC';
+-    my $spec = do $file;
++    my $spec = do "./$file";
+ 
+     my %rv   =
+       $@                     ? do { croak $@ =~ OS_ERROR ? $@ : "Couldn't parse $file: $@" }
+-- 
+2.9.4
+
diff --git a/perl-Text-Template-Simple.spec b/perl-Text-Template-Simple.spec
index 0117ddf..8a629df 100644
--- a/perl-Text-Template-Simple.spec
+++ b/perl-Text-Template-Simple.spec
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 Name:           perl-Text-Template-Simple
 Version:        0.90
-Release:        2%{?dist}
+Release:        3%{?dist}
 Summary:        Simple text template engine
 License:        GPL+ or Artistic
 URL:            http://search.cpan.org/dist/Text-Template-Simple/
 Source0:        http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/B/BU/BURAK/Text-Template-Simple-%{version}.tar.gz
+# Fix building on Perl without "." in @INC, CPAN RT#121697
+Patch0:         Text-Template-Simple-0.90-Fix-building-on-Perl-without-.-in-INC.patch
 BuildArch:      noarch
 # Build
 BuildRequires:  perl
@@ -66,6 +68,7 @@ Requires:       perl(Text::Table) >= 1.107
 
 %prep
 %setup -q -n Text-Template-Simple-%{version}
+%patch0 -p1
 
 %build
 perl Build.PL installdirs=vendor
@@ -87,6 +90,9 @@ perl Build.PL installdirs=vendor
 %{perl_vendorlib}/Text*
 
 %changelog
+* Tue May 16 2017 Petr Pisar <ppisar@redhat.com> - 0.90-3
+- Fix building on Perl without "." in @INC (CPAN RT#121697)
+
 * Sat Feb 11 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 0.90-2
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_26_Mass_Rebuild