diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/zbar/zbar_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/zbar/zbar_git.bb
index dae9122520..5cb7baae33 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/zbar/zbar_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/zbar/zbar_git.bb
@@ -53,7 +53,6 @@ CPPFLAGS_append = "\
 
 TARGET_CXXFLAGS_append = " -fPIC"
 
-do_prepare_recipe_sysroot_gettext() {
-        install -m 755 ${STAGING_DATADIR_NATIVE}/gettext/ABOUT-NLS ${S}/
+do_configure_prepend() {
+    install -m 755 ${STAGING_DATADIR_NATIVE}/gettext/ABOUT-NLS ${S}/
 }
-addtask do_prepare_recipe_sysroot_gettext after do_prepare_recipe_sysroot before do_configure
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