diff --git a/tpm2.0-abrmd.changes b/tpm2.0-abrmd.changes
index f2d7e45..280ede7 100644
--- a/tpm2.0-abrmd.changes
+++ b/tpm2.0-abrmd.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Oct 23 15:46:28 UTC 2018 - matthias.gerstner@suse.com
+
+- fix broken build due to newer glib dependency that reports a full path for
+  gdbus-codegen, breaking the configure check.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Sep 26 15:51:01 UTC 2018 - matthias.gerstner@suse.com
 
diff --git a/tpm2.0-abrmd.spec b/tpm2.0-abrmd.spec
index 710ac82..404bef2 100644
--- a/tpm2.0-abrmd.spec
+++ b/tpm2.0-abrmd.spec
@@ -78,6 +78,9 @@ use with the SAPI library (libtss2-sys) like any other TCTI.
 %build
 export CFLAGS="%optflags -fPIE"
 export LDFLAGS="-pie -fPIE"
+# workaround for the bug that upstream commit
+# b4036908dd067f8eadc9d53b1a2a39032aed109d fixes
+export GDBUS_CODEGEN="/usr/bin/gdbus-codegen"
 %configure --disable-static --with-systemdsystemunitdir=%{_unitdir}
 make %{?_smp_mflags} PTHREAD_LDFLAGS=-pthread