diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/artha/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/artha/default.nix
index f69152820e43..202c1669f858 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/artha/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/artha/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, dbus-glib, gtk2, pkgconfig, wordnet }:
+{ stdenv, autoreconfHook, fetchurl, dbus-glib, gtk2, pkgconfig, wordnet }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "artha-${version}";
@@ -9,9 +9,13 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "0qr4ihl7ma3cq82xi1fpzvf74mm9vsg0j035xvmcp3r6rmw2fycx";
   };
 
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook pkgconfig ];
   buildInputs = [ dbus-glib gtk2 wordnet ];
 
+  patches = [
+    ./gio-underlink.patch
+  ];
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "An offline thesaurus based on WordNet";
     homepage = http://artha.sourceforge.net;
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/artha/gio-underlink.patch b/pkgs/applications/misc/artha/gio-underlink.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..08d9c4787369
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/artha/gio-underlink.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+diff --git a/src/Makefile.am b/src/Makefile.am
+index 0236d72..bcc1182 100644
+--- a/src/Makefile.am
++++ b/src/Makefile.am
+@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ artha_LDADD = libwni.a $(WORDNET_LIB)
+ 
+ if POSIX
+ AM_CFLAGS += @libdbus_CFLAGS@
+-artha_LDADD += -lX11 -ldbus-1 -ldbus-glib-1 -lgtk-x11-2.0 \
++artha_LDADD += -lX11 -ldbus-1 -ldbus-glib-1 -lgio-2.0 -lgtk-x11-2.0 \
+ 		-lgdk-x11-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0
+ else
+ artha_LDADD += @GTK_LIBS@