diff --git a/srcpkgs/appdata-tools/template b/srcpkgs/appdata-tools/template
index e1fe441958..126997ddee 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/appdata-tools/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/appdata-tools/template
@@ -11,3 +11,8 @@ license="GPL-2"
 homepage="http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata"
 distfiles="http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/releases/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.xz"
 checksum=401583d27f0f91bbc03de09f53efd4bf86b20da37d6930ff7bff297d7f1e5461
+
+post_configure() {
+	vsed -i po/Makefile \
+		-e 's;\(itlocaledir = $(prefix)\)/$(DATADIRNAME)/locale;\1/share/locale;'
+}