diff --git a/office/gnucash/gnucash.conf b/office/gnucash/gnucash.conf
index 75aa00072..ec51fde46 100644
--- a/office/gnucash/gnucash.conf
+++ b/office/gnucash/gnucash.conf
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 # --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
 
 # workaround autoconf error: possibly undefined macro: AM_GCONF_SOURCE_2
-hook_add preconf 9 "autoreconf -v -I $(pkgprefix -r datadir gconf)/aclocal"
+hook_add preconf 9 "autoreconf -vfi"
 
 # disable treating compile warnings as errors
 # var_append extraconfopt ' ' '--disable-error-on-warning'