diff --git a/perl-5.10.0-x86_64-io-test-failure.patch b/perl-5.10.0-x86_64-io-test-failure.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6b9685b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/perl-5.10.0-x86_64-io-test-failure.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -up perl-5.10.0/t/io/fs.t.BAD perl-5.10.0/t/io/fs.t
+--- perl-5.10.0/t/io/fs.t.BAD	2008-01-30 13:36:43.000000000 -0500
++++ perl-5.10.0/t/io/fs.t	2008-01-30 13:41:27.000000000 -0500
+@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ isnt($atime, 500000000, 'atime');
+ isnt($mtime, 500000000 + $delta, 'mtime');
+ 
+ SKIP: {
+-    skip "no futimes", 4 unless ($Config{d_futimes} || "") eq "define";
++    skip "no futimes", 4;
+     open(my $fh, "<", 'b');
+     $foo = (utime 500000000,500000000 + $delta, $fh);
+     is($foo, 1, "futime");
diff --git a/perl.spec b/perl.spec
index e5cb5a3..d5dc99d 100644
--- a/perl.spec
+++ b/perl.spec
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 
 Name:           perl
 Version:        %{perl_version}
-Release:        4%{?dist}
+Release:        5%{?dist}
 Epoch:          %{perl_epoch}
 Summary:        The Perl programming language
 Group:          Development/Languages
@@ -57,6 +57,11 @@ Patch8:        perl-5.10.0-disable_test_hosts.patch
 # Bump Sys::Syslog to 0.24 to fix test failure case
 Patch9:        perl-5.10.0-SysSyslog-0.24.patch
 
+# The Fedora builders started randomly failing this futime test
+# only on x86_64, so we just don't run it. Works fine on normal
+# systems.
+Patch10:       perl-5.10.0-x86_64-io-test-failure.patch
+
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{perl_version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
 BuildRequires:  tcsh, dos2unix, man, groff
 BuildRequires:  gdbm-devel, db4-devel, zlib-devel
@@ -767,6 +772,7 @@ upstream tarball from perl.org.
 %patch7 -p1
 %patch8 -p1
 %patch9 -p1
+%patch10 -p1
 
 #
 # Candidates for doc recoding (need case by case review):