diff --git a/flake.nix b/flake.nix
index 2a113b8fc..3226874d5 100644
--- a/flake.nix
+++ b/flake.nix
@@ -116,7 +116,16 @@
               cmake
               curl
               doxygen
-              file
+              (file.overrideAttrs (attrs: {
+                version = "5.46";
+                src = fetchurl {
+                  urls = [
+                    "https://astron.com/pub/file/file-5.46.tar.gz"
+                    "https://distfiles.macports.org/file/file-5.46.tar.gz"
+                  ];
+                  hash = "sha256-ycx3x8VgxUMTXtxVWvYJ1WGdvvARmX6YjOQKPXXYYIg=";
+                };
+              }))
               flex
               gettext
               gnumake
diff --git a/recipes/tools/gettext/recipe.toml b/recipes/tools/gettext/recipe.toml
index 6c03f5527..9a18ebf85 100644
--- a/recipes/tools/gettext/recipe.toml
+++ b/recipes/tools/gettext/recipe.toml
@@ -9,12 +9,12 @@ patches = [
 script = """
 DYNAMIC_INIT
 GNU_CONFIG_GET build-aux/config.sub
-( cd gettext-runtime/libasprintf && autoreconf -fvi -I${COOKBOOK_HOST_SYSROOT}/share/aclocal )
-( cd gettext-runtime/intl && autoreconf -fvi -I${COOKBOOK_HOST_SYSROOT}/share/aclocal )
-( cd gettext-runtime && autoreconf -fvi -I${COOKBOOK_HOST_SYSROOT}/share/aclocal )
-( cd gettext-tools && autoreconf -fvi -I${COOKBOOK_HOST_SYSROOT}/share/aclocal )
+( cd gettext-runtime/libasprintf && AUTOPOINT=true autoreconf -fvi -I${COOKBOOK_HOST_SYSROOT}/share/aclocal )
+( cd gettext-runtime/intl && AUTOPOINT=true autoreconf -fvi -I${COOKBOOK_HOST_SYSROOT}/share/aclocal )
+( cd gettext-runtime && AUTOPOINT=true autoreconf -fvi -I${COOKBOOK_HOST_SYSROOT}/share/aclocal )
+( cd gettext-tools && AUTOPOINT=true autoreconf -fvi -I${COOKBOOK_HOST_SYSROOT}/share/aclocal )
 ( cd libtextstyle && autoreconf -fvi -I${COOKBOOK_HOST_SYSROOT}/share/aclocal )
-autoreconf -fvi -I${COOKBOOK_HOST_SYSROOT}/share/aclocal
+AUTOPOINT=true autoreconf -fvi -I${COOKBOOK_HOST_SYSROOT}/share/aclocal
 """
 
 [build]