diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index bde287f..7acd347 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ perl:
     - "5.16"
     - "5.10"
     - "5.8"
+    - "blead"
 
 env:
     global:
diff --git a/_travis/before_install.sh b/_travis/before_install.sh
index 9a10cde..af032fc 100755
--- a/_travis/before_install.sh
+++ b/_travis/before_install.sh
@@ -62,3 +62,9 @@ cp Math-GSL*.tar.gz /tmp
 ls -la /tmp/Math-GSL*.tar.gz # now we have a CPAN dist to test on each version of GSL
 cd $ORIG_DIR
 
+git clone git://github.com/travis-perl/helpers ~/travis-perl-helpers
+source ~/travis-perl-helpers/init
+build-perl
+perl -V
+build-dist
+cd $BUILD_DIR # $BUILD_DIR is set by the build-dist command