diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/xmlrpc-c/xmlrpc-c_1.54.02.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/xmlrpc-c/xmlrpc-c_1.54.02.bb
index ef73455d74..36205009a4 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/xmlrpc-c/xmlrpc-c_1.54.02.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/xmlrpc-c/xmlrpc-c_1.54.02.bb
@@ -35,8 +35,7 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[cplusplus] = "--enable-cplusplus,--disable-cplusplus"
 PACKAGECONFIG[curl] = "--enable-curl-client,--disable-curl-client,curl"
 
 do_configure() {
-        install -m 0755 ${STAGING_DATADIR_NATIVE}/gnu-config/config.guess ${S}
-        install -m 0755 ${STAGING_DATADIR_NATIVE}/gnu-config/config.sub ${S}
+        gnu-configize --verbose --force ${S}
         autoconf
         oe_runconf
         # license is incompatible with lib/util/getoptx.*