diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/php/php_8.2.26.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/php/php_8.2.26.bb
index 61b127373a..053242413f 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/php/php_8.2.26.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/php/php_8.2.26.bb
@@ -162,11 +162,12 @@ do_install:append:class-native() {
     rm -rf ${D}/${PHP_LIBDIR}/php/.[a-z]*
 }
 
-ACLOCALDIR = "${STAGING_DATADIR}/aclocal"
-
 do_install:prepend() {
-    cat ${ACLOCALDIR}/libtool.m4 ${ACLOCALDIR}/lt~obsolete.m4 ${ACLOCALDIR}/ltoptions.m4 \
-        ${ACLOCALDIR}/ltsugar.m4 ${ACLOCALDIR}/ltversion.m4 > ${S}/build/libtool.m4
+    cat ${STAGING_DATADIR}/aclocal/libtool.m4 \
+    ${STAGING_DATADIR}/aclocal/lt~obsolete.m4 \
+    ${STAGING_DATADIR}/aclocal/ltoptions.m4 \
+    ${STAGING_DATADIR}/aclocal/ltsugar.m4 \
+    ${STAGING_DATADIR}/aclocal/ltversion.m4 > ${S}/build/libtool.m4
 }
 
 do_install:prepend:class-target() {