diff --git a/srcpkgs/tar/template b/srcpkgs/tar/template
index 641409c5e5a..8b9f5900bb3 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/tar/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/tar/template
@@ -12,5 +12,5 @@ distfiles="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/$pkgname-$version.tar.bz2"
 checksum=5a5369f464502a598e938029c310d4b3abd51e6bb8dfd045663e61c8ea9f6d41
 
 pre_configure() {
-	sed -i -e '/gets is a/d' lib/stdio.in.h
+	sed -i -e '/gets is a/d' gnu/stdio.in.h
 }