diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/gmime/gmime_3.2.6.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/gmime/gmime_3.2.6.bb
index 9d1bb7d..4ae13e7 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/gmime/gmime_3.2.6.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/gmime/gmime_3.2.6.bb
@@ -13,4 +13,7 @@
 SRC_URI[archive.sha256sum] = "abff194c7c4802fba2e233890d09dde8bf7170c3ad5e13000601c8d5b3c44717"
 
 export ac_cv_have_iconv_detect_h="yes"
-do_configure_append = "cp ${WORKDIR}/iconv-detect.h ${S}"
+
+do_configure_append () {
+    cp ${WORKDIR}/iconv-detect.h ${S}
+}