diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libqb/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libqb/default.nix
index 73938bd8f973..bb3f568b1cf8 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libqb/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libqb/default.nix
@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   buildInputs = [ libxml2 ];
 
+  postPatch = ''
+    sed -i '/# --enable-new-dtags:/,/--enable-new-dtags is required/ d' configure.ac
+  '';
+
   meta = with lib; {
     homepage = "https://github.com/clusterlabs/libqb";
     description = "A library providing high performance logging, tracing, ipc, and poll";