diff --git a/srcpkgs/imlib2/template b/srcpkgs/imlib2/template
index 6c8103a93b..b1417419e4 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/imlib2/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/imlib2/template
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ version=1.4.6
 revision=4
 build_style=gnu-configure
 configure_args="--disable-static --sysconfdir=/etc/imlib2 --enable-visibility-hiding"
-hostmakedepends="libtool pkg-config"
+hostmakedepends="libtool autoconf pkg-config"
 makedepends="freetype-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel libpng-devel>=1.6
  tiff-devel libid3tag-devel giflib-devel>=5.1.0 libXext-devel libSM-devel"
 short_desc="Image manipulation library"
@@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ checksum=17cc128c0e61974d59c423b59d0fb5cb85c97169adf5b05184cc58f7c87b4f4e
 
 pre_configure() {
 	libtoolize -f
+	# prevent regenerating Makefile.in and aclocal.m4
+	touch aclocal.m4 Makefile.in
+	# make it build with giflib-5.1.0
+	# see http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/ticket/5076#comment:2
+	sed -i "/DGifCloseFile/s:gif:&, NULL:g" src/modules/loaders/loader_gif.c
 	sed -e 's,@my_libs@,@LIBS@,g' -i imlib2-config.in
 }