diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/gettext/gettext_0.21.bb b/meta/recipes-core/gettext/gettext_0.21.bb
index 4247b487ab..5ada709937 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/gettext/gettext_0.21.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/gettext/gettext_0.21.bb
@@ -171,6 +171,7 @@ do_install_ptest() {
         find ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/ -name "*.o" -exec rm {} \;
         chmod 0755 ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests/lang-vala ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests/plural-1 ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests/xgettext-tcl-4 \
                    ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests/xgettext-vala-1  ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests/xgettext-po-2
+        sed -i -e 's|${DEBUG_PREFIX_MAP}||g' ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests/init-env
     fi
 }