diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/md/mdbtools/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/md/mdbtools/package.nix
index 381245fef2c7..77703f590ead 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/md/mdbtools/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/md/mdbtools/package.nix
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
   autoreconfHook,
   txt2man,
   which,
+  gettext,
 }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
@@ -41,6 +42,10 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     readline
   ];
 
+  postUnpack = ''
+    cp -v ${gettext}/share/gettext/m4/lib-{link,prefix,ld}.m4 source/m4
+  '';
+
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
   meta = with lib; {