diff --git a/srcpkgs/libvirt/template b/srcpkgs/libvirt/template
index 36d2697ef35..54d42545642 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/libvirt/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/libvirt/template
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ license="LGPL-2.1"
 distfiles="http://libvirt.org/sources/$pkgname-$version.tar.gz"
 checksum=5f88041b8c212f8f687c672fe583108833240d6175b512ce4de92ab6660194c6
 
-hostmakedepends="perl pkg-config lvm2 parted"
+hostmakedepends="automake libtool perl pkg-config lvm2 parted gettext-devel"
 makedepends="readline-devel libcap-ng-devel libnl3-devel attr-devel
  gnutls-devel libsasl-devel libcurl-devel libpcap-devel libxml2-devel
  libparted-devel device-mapper-devel dbus-devel libudev-devel libblkid-devel
@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ conf_files="
  /etc/libvirt/libvirt.conf
  /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf
  /etc/libvirt/lxc.conf
- /etc/libvirt/nwfilter
  /etc/libvirt/nwfilter/allow-arp.xml
  /etc/libvirt/nwfilter/allow-dhcp-server.xml
  /etc/libvirt/nwfilter/allow-dhcp.xml
@@ -77,6 +76,9 @@ make_dirs="
  /var/libvirt/boot 0755 root root
  /var/cache/libvirt/qemu 0755 root root"
 
+pre_configure() {
+	autoreconf -fi
+}
 post_install() {
 	# runit services
 	vsv libvirtd