diff --git a/app-text/libqxp/libqxp-0.0.3.ebuild b/app-text/libqxp/libqxp-0.0.3.ebuild
index 54d471dc68beb..fdd2a4cdd44ce 100644
--- a/app-text/libqxp/libqxp-0.0.3.ebuild
+++ b/app-text/libqxp/libqxp-0.0.3.ebuild
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 
 EAPI=9
 
+inherit autotools
+
 DESCRIPTION="Library parsing QuarkXpress documents"
 HOMEPAGE="https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/DLP/Libraries/libqxp"
 SRC_URI="https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/src/${PN}/${P}.tar.xz"
@@ -26,6 +28,15 @@ BDEPEND="
 	doc? ( app-text/doxygen )
 "
 
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+
+	# old bundled version
+	rm m4/ax_cxx_compile_stdcxx.m4 || die
+
+	eautoreconf
+}
+
 src_configure() {
 	local myeconfargs=(
 		--disable-weffc