diff --git a/package/libnfs/libnfs.hash b/package/libnfs/libnfs.hash
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..14d304fca0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/libnfs/libnfs.hash
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# Locally calculated
+sha256	e95af693e763a504eee72dacf3dc6c1001d83e40b807e7e1d0be2eaf48af779c	libnfs-libnfs-1.9.8.tar.gz
diff --git a/package/libnfs/libnfs.mk b/package/libnfs/libnfs.mk
index fb95e21dbc..40d5cebbe6 100644
--- a/package/libnfs/libnfs.mk
+++ b/package/libnfs/libnfs.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-LIBNFS_VERSION = libnfs-1.9.5
+LIBNFS_VERSION = libnfs-1.9.8
 LIBNFS_SITE = $(call github,sahlberg,libnfs,$(LIBNFS_VERSION))
 LIBNFS_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
 LIBNFS_AUTORECONF = YES
@@ -17,4 +17,10 @@ ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LIBTIRPC),y)
 LIBNFS_DEPENDENCIES += libtirpc
 endif
 
+# Needed for autoreconf
+define LIBNFS_MAKE_M4_DIR
+	mkdir $(@D)/m4
+endef
+LIBNFS_POST_EXTRACT_HOOKS += LIBNFS_MAKE_M4_DIR
+
 $(eval $(autotools-package))