diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/netcf/netcf_git.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/netcf/netcf_git.bb
index 26c738b2cc..08082ffb4b 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/netcf/netcf_git.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/netcf/netcf_git.bb
@@ -16,13 +16,33 @@ DEPENDS += "augeas libnl libxslt libxml2 gnulib"
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
 
-inherit gettext autotools-bootstrap pkgconfig systemd
+inherit gettext autotools pkgconfig systemd
 
 EXTRA_OECONF_append_class-target = " --with-driver=redhat"
 
 PACKAGECONFIG ??= "${@bb.utils.contains("DISTRO_FEATURES", "systemd", "systemd", "", d)}"
 PACKAGECONFIG[systemd] = "--with-sysinit=systemd,--with-sysinit=initscripts,"
 
+do_configure_prepend() {
+    currdir=`pwd`
+    cd ${S}
+
+    # avoid bootstrap cloning gnulib on every configure
+    cat >.gitmodules <<EOF
+[submodule "gnulib"]
+       path = gnulib
+       url = git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib
+EOF
+    cp -rf ${STAGING_DATADIR}/gnulib ${S}
+
+    # --force to avoid errors on reconfigure e.g if recipes changed we depend on
+    # | bootstrap: running: libtoolize --quiet
+    # | libtoolize:   error: 'libltdl/COPYING.LIB' exists: use '--force' to overwrite
+    # | ...
+    ./bootstrap --force
+    cd $currdir
+}
+
 do_install_append() {
     if ${@base_contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'systemd', 'true', 'false', d)}; then
        install -d ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system
diff --git a/meta-oe/classes/autotools-bootstrap.bbclass b/meta-oe/classes/autotools-bootstrap.bbclass
deleted file mode 100644
index 8d7af1b472..0000000000
--- a/meta-oe/classes/autotools-bootstrap.bbclass
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-# Class to inherit when you want to build with autotools after running bootstrap
-inherit autotools
-
-DEPENDS += "gnulib"
-
-do_configure_prepend() {
-    currdir=`pwd`
-    cd ${S}
-
-    # avoid bootstrap cloning gnulib on every configure
-    cat >.gitmodules <<EOF
-[submodule "gnulib"]
-	path = gnulib
-	url = git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib
-EOF
-    cp -rf ${STAGING_DATADIR}/gnulib ${S}
-
-    # --force to avoid errors on reconfigure e.g if recipes changed we depend on
-    # | bootstrap: running: libtoolize --quiet
-    # | libtoolize:   error: 'libltdl/COPYING.LIB' exists: use '--force' to overwrite
-    # | ...
-    ./bootstrap --force
-    cd $currdir
-}
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/fontforge/fontforge_20150824.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/fontforge/fontforge_20150824.bb
index b50202d0a6..53899f13cd 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/fontforge/fontforge_20150824.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/fontforge/fontforge_20150824.bb
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = " \
 DEPENDS = "glib-2.0 pango giflib tiff libxml2 jpeg python libtool uthash"
 DEPENDS_append_class-target = " libxi"
 
-inherit autotools-bootstrap pkgconfig pythonnative distro_features_check
+inherit autotools pkgconfig pythonnative distro_features_check
 
 REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES_append_class-target = " x11"
 
@@ -24,8 +24,24 @@ do_configure_prepend() {
     # uthash sources are expected in uthash/src
     currdir=`pwd`
     cd ${S}
+
     mkdir -p uthash/src
     cp ${STAGING_INCDIR}/ut*.h uthash/src
+
+    # avoid bootstrap cloning gnulib on every configure
+    cat >.gitmodules <<EOF
+[submodule "gnulib"]
+       path = gnulib
+       url = git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib
+EOF
+    cp -rf ${STAGING_DATADIR}/gnulib ${S}
+
+    # --force to avoid errors on reconfigure e.g if recipes changed we depend on
+    # | bootstrap: running: libtoolize --quiet
+    # | libtoolize:   error: 'libltdl/COPYING.LIB' exists: use '--force' to overwrite
+    # | ...
+    ./bootstrap --force
+
     cd $currdir
 }