diff --git a/libs/xmlrpc-c/configure.gnu b/libs/xmlrpc-c/configure.gnu
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..668b3e6780
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libs/xmlrpc-c/configure.gnu
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#! /bin/sh
+srcpath=$(dirname $0 2>/dev/null )  || srcpath="." 
+$srcpath/configure "$@" --disable-cplusplus --disable-wininet-client --disable-libwww-client --disable-shared --with-pic --disable-curl-client