diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libwmf/libwmf_0.2.8.4.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libwmf/libwmf_0.2.8.4.bb
index 3b92924399..58bfd1f25b 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libwmf/libwmf_0.2.8.4.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libwmf/libwmf_0.2.8.4.bb
@@ -27,6 +27,10 @@ SRC_URI[tarball.sha256sum] = "5b345c69220545d003ad52bfd035d5d6f4f075e65204114a9e
 UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI = "https://sourceforge.net/projects/wvware/files/libwmf/"
 UPSTREAM_CHECK_REGEX = "${BPN}/(?P<pver>\d+(\.\d+)+)"
 
+do_install:append() {
+    sed -i -e 's@${RECIPE_SYSROOT}@@g' ${D}${bindir}/libwmf-config
+}
+
 FILES:${PN}-dbg += "${libdir}/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/.debug"
 FILES:${PN}-dev += "${libdir}/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/*.la"
 FILES:${PN}-staticdev += "${libdir}/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/*.a"