diff --git a/meta-multimedia/recipes-dvb/tvheadend/tvheadend_git.bb b/meta-multimedia/recipes-dvb/tvheadend/tvheadend_git.bb
index b3e5e78c7c..d64ee96f78 100644
--- a/meta-multimedia/recipes-dvb/tvheadend/tvheadend_git.bb
+++ b/meta-multimedia/recipes-dvb/tvheadend/tvheadend_git.bb
@@ -30,3 +30,7 @@ EXTRA_OECONF:append:libc-musl = " --disable-execinfo"
 
 EXTRA_OEMAKE = "CFLAGS_NO_WERROR=yes"
 CLEANBROKEN = "1"
+
+do_configure:append() {
+    sed -i -e "s|${WORKDIR}|<TOPDIR>|g" ${B}/build.linux/build.c
+}