diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/dev-util/gperf/gperf-3.1-r1.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/dev-util/gperf/gperf-3.1-r1.ebuild
index 2d775e7d97..c7408f1004 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/dev-util/gperf/gperf-3.1-r1.ebuild
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/dev-util/gperf/gperf-3.1-r1.ebuild
@@ -24,3 +24,7 @@ src_prepare() {
 
 	default
 }
+
+src_configure() {
+	econf --cache-file="${S}"/config.cache
+}