diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/erlang/generic-builder.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/erlang/generic-builder.nix
index bc0b728ecce4..914c3a0f5cfe 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/erlang/generic-builder.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/erlang/generic-builder.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 { pkgs, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, makeWrapper, gawk, gnum4, gnused
-, libxml2, libxslt, ncurses, openssl, perl, autoreconfHook
+, libxml2, libxslt, ncurses, openssl, perl, autoconf
 , openjdk ? null # javacSupport
 , unixODBC ? null # odbcSupport
 , libGLU_combined ? null, wxGTK ? null, wxmac ? null, xorg ? null # wxSupport
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation ({
 
   inherit src version;
 
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook makeWrapper perl gnum4 libxslt libxml2 ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ autoconf makeWrapper perl gnum4 libxslt libxml2 ];
 
   buildInputs = [ ncurses openssl ]
     ++ optionals wxSupport wxPackages2