diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/audio/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/audio/default.nix
index 777cf5d40249..c4bbb27d037f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/audio/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/audio/default.nix
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
   alsa-lib,
   rtmidi,
   pkg-config,
+  autoreconfHook,
 }:
 
 buildOctavePackage rec {
@@ -22,6 +23,7 @@ buildOctavePackage rec {
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [
     pkg-config
+    autoreconfHook
   ];
 
   propagatedBuildInputs = [
@@ -30,6 +32,21 @@ buildOctavePackage rec {
     rtmidi
   ];
 
+  # autoreconfHook provides an autoreconfPhase that is run as a
+  # preconfigurePhase, which means it runs AFTER the source is un-tarred, and
+  # before buildOctavePackage's buildPhase re-tars it up into a format for later
+  # consumption by Octave's "pkg build" command.
+  preAutoreconf = ''
+    pushd src
+    # Upstream's bootstrap script uses wget to fetch config.guess & config.sub
+    # and has them committed to the repository. We must remove them so autoreconf
+    # actually fires for our environment.
+    rm config.*
+  '';
+  postAutoreconf = ''
+    popd
+  '';
+
   passthru.updateScript = nix-update-script { extraArgs = [ "--version-regex=release-(.*)" ]; };
 
   meta = {
@@ -38,6 +55,5 @@ buildOctavePackage rec {
     maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
     description = "Audio and MIDI Toolbox for GNU Octave";
     platforms = lib.platforms.linux; # Because of run-time dependency on jack2 and alsa-lib
-    broken = true;
   };
 }