diff --git a/pkgs/development/perl-modules/DBD-SQLite/default.nix b/pkgs/development/perl-modules/DBD-SQLite/default.nix
index bf3089ebfb9a..a2a439b295b0 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/perl-modules/DBD-SQLite/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/perl-modules/DBD-SQLite/default.nix
@@ -1,25 +1,24 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, buildPerlPackage, DBI, sqlite }:
 
 buildPerlPackage rec {
-  name = "DBD-SQLite-1.50";
+  name = "DBD-SQLite-${version}";
+  version = "1.54";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "mirror://cpan/authors/id/I/IS/ISHIGAKI/${name}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "1qcw2nzla03ywrl6mx1qklvbc8n5bn4gxqbjnvadfkwlffmi7i9s";
+    sha256 = "3929a6dbd8d71630f0cb57f85dcef9588cd7ac4c9fa12db79df77b9d3a4d7269";
   };
 
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ DBI ];
-
-  makeMakerFlags = "SQLITE_LOCATION=${sqlite.dev}";
+  buildInputs = [ sqlite ];
 
   patches = [
     # Support building against our own sqlite.
     ./external-sqlite.patch
   ];
 
-  sqlite_dev = sqlite.dev;
-  sqlite_out = sqlite.out;
-  postPatch = "substituteAllInPlace Makefile.PL; cat Makefile.PL";
+  SQLITE_INC = sqlite.dev + "/include";
+  SQLITE_LIB = sqlite.out + "/lib";
 
   preBuild =
     ''
@@ -39,5 +38,9 @@ buildPerlPackage rec {
   # (e.g. "database is locked(5) at dbdimp.c line 402 at t/07busy.t").
   #doCheck = false;
 
-  meta.platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Self Contained SQLite RDBMS in a DBI Driver";
+    license = with licenses; [ artistic1 gpl1Plus ];
+    platforms = platforms.unix;
+  };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/perl-modules/DBD-SQLite/external-sqlite.patch b/pkgs/development/perl-modules/DBD-SQLite/external-sqlite.patch
index 1f90546b252c..5aafa461d943 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/perl-modules/DBD-SQLite/external-sqlite.patch
+++ b/pkgs/development/perl-modules/DBD-SQLite/external-sqlite.patch
@@ -1,33 +1,11 @@
-diff --git a/Makefile.PL b/Makefile.PL
-index 606b28d..0cea060 100644
---- a/Makefile.PL
-+++ b/Makefile.PL
-@@ -128,24 +128,10 @@ SCOPE: {
- # the system SQLite. We expect that anyone sophisticated enough to use
+--- a/Makefile.PL	2016-04-21 15:44:34.000000000 +0200
++++ b/Makefile.PL	2017-10-31 11:04:28.389959946 +0100
+@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@
  # a system sqlite is also sophisticated enough to have a patching system
  # that can change the if ( 0 ) to if ( 1 )
--my ($sqlite_local, $sqlite_base, $sqlite_lib, $sqlite_inc);
+ my ($sqlite_local, $sqlite_base, $sqlite_lib, $sqlite_inc);
 -if ( 0 ) {
--	require File::Spec;
--	if ( $sqlite_base = (grep(/SQLITE_LOCATION=.*/, @ARGV))[0] ) {
--		$sqlite_base =~ /=(.*)/;
--		$sqlite_base = $1;
--		$sqlite_lib = File::Spec->catdir( $sqlite_base, 'lib'     );
--		$sqlite_inc = File::Spec->catdir( $sqlite_base, 'include' );
--	}
--	if ( $sqlite_local = (grep(/USE_LOCAL_SQLITE=.*/, @ARGV))[0] ) {
--		$sqlite_local =~ /=(.*)/;
--		$sqlite_local = "$1" ? 1 : 0;
--		if ( $sqlite_local ) {
--			# Keep these from making into CFLAGS/LDFLAGS
--			undef $sqlite_lib;
--			undef $sqlite_inc;
--		}
--	}
-+my ($sqlite_local, $sqlite_lib, $sqlite_inc);
 +if ( 1 ) {
-+		$sqlite_lib = '@sqlite_out@/lib';
-+		$sqlite_inc = '@sqlite_dev@/include';
- 
- 	# Now check for a compatible sqlite3
- 	unless ( $sqlite_local ) {
+ 	require File::Spec;
+ 	if ( $sqlite_base = (grep(/SQLITE_LOCATION=.*/, @ARGV))[0] ) {
+ 		$sqlite_base =~ /=(.*)/;