diff --git a/import-layers/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/gnome-common/gnome-common_3.18.0.bb b/import-layers/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/gnome-common/gnome-common_3.18.0.bb
index 06f3bb3..d874164 100644
--- a/import-layers/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/gnome-common/gnome-common_3.18.0.bb
+++ b/import-layers/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/gnome-common/gnome-common_3.18.0.bb
@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@
 EXTRA_AUTORECONF = ""
 DEPENDS = ""
 
+# Default to enable autoconf-archive to avoid conflicts
+PACKAGECONFIG ??= "autoconf-archive"
+PACKAGECONFIG[autoconf-archive] = "--with-autoconf-archive, --without-autoconf-archive, autoconf-archive"
+
 FILES_${PN} += "${datadir}/aclocal"
 FILES_${PN}-dev = ""