diff --git a/meta-xfce/recipes-apps/xfce4-notifyd/files/xfce4-notifyd-get-var-abs-path.patch b/meta-xfce/recipes-apps/xfce4-notifyd/files/xfce4-notifyd-get-var-abs-path.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 719267fd16..0000000000
--- a/meta-xfce/recipes-apps/xfce4-notifyd/files/xfce4-notifyd-get-var-abs-path.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
-Native pkg_config only return basename of the variable queried. Invoke `which`
-to get the absolute path.
-
-Upstream-Status: Inappropriate [oe specific]
-
-Signed-off-by: Kai Kang <kai.kang@windriver.com>
----
- configure.ac | 6 +++---
- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
-index 0f49e2b..a589147 100644
---- a/configure.ac
-+++ b/configure.ac
-@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ AC_MSG_CHECKING([for gdbus-codegen])
- if test x"$GDBUS_CODEGEN" = x""; then
-     GDBUS_CODEGEN=`$PKG_CONFIG --variable=gdbus_codegen gio-2.0`
- fi
--if test -x "$GDBUS_CODEGEN"; then
-+if test -x "$(which $GDBUS_CODEGEN)"; then
-     AC_MSG_RESULT([$GDBUS_CODEGEN])
- else
-     AC_MSG_ERROR([could not find gdbus-codegen in \$PATH. You can run
-@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ AC_MSG_CHECKING([for glib-compile-resources])
- if test x"$GLIB_COMPILE_RESOURCES" = x""; then
-     GLIB_COMPILE_RESOURCES=`$PKG_CONFIG --variable=glib_compile_resources gio-2.0`
- fi
--if test -x "$GLIB_COMPILE_RESOURCES"; then
-+if test -x "$(which $GLIB_COMPILE_RESOURCES)"; then
-     AC_MSG_RESULT([$GLIB_COMPILE_RESOURCES])
- else
-     AC_MSG_ERROR([could not find glib-compile-resources in \$PATH. You can run
-@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ AC_MSG_CHECKING([for glib-genmarshal])
- if test x"$GLIB_GENMARSHAL" = x""; then
-     GLIB_GENMARSHAL=`$PKG_CONFIG --variable=glib_genmarshal glib-2.0`
- fi
--if test -x "$GLIB_GENMARSHAL"; then
-+if test -x "$(which $GLIB_GENMARSHAL)"; then
-     AC_MSG_RESULT([$GLIB_GENMARSHAL])
- else
-     AC_MSG_ERROR([could not find glib-genmarshal in \$PATH. You can run
diff --git a/meta-xfce/recipes-apps/xfce4-notifyd/xfce4-notifyd_0.8.2.bb b/meta-xfce/recipes-apps/xfce4-notifyd/xfce4-notifyd_0.9.4.bb
similarity index 62%
rename from meta-xfce/recipes-apps/xfce4-notifyd/xfce4-notifyd_0.8.2.bb
rename to meta-xfce/recipes-apps/xfce4-notifyd/xfce4-notifyd_0.9.4.bb
index 96cfd32f7b..987735e763 100644
--- a/meta-xfce/recipes-apps/xfce4-notifyd/xfce4-notifyd_0.8.2.bb
+++ b/meta-xfce/recipes-apps/xfce4-notifyd/xfce4-notifyd_0.9.4.bb
@@ -16,13 +16,16 @@ DEPENDS = " \
 inherit xfce-app
 inherit python3native
 
-SRC_URI:append = " file://xfce4-notifyd-get-var-abs-path.patch"
-
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "e3a28adb08daa1411135142a0d421e4d6050c4035a4e513a673a59460ff2ae84"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "ae6c128c055c44bd07202f73ae69ad833c5e4754f3530696965136e4d9ea7818"
 
 # Avoid trouble with other desktops e.g KDE which also ships dbus service named
 # org.freedesktop.Notifications
-EXTRA_OECONF = "--disable-dbus-start-daemon"
+EXTRA_OECONF = "--disable-dbus-start-daemon \
+                GDBUS_CODEGEN=${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/gdbus-codegen \
+                GLIB_COMPILE_RESOURCES=${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/glib-compile-resources \
+                GLIB_GENMARSHAL=${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/glib-genmarshal \
+                GLIB_MKENUMS=${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/glib-mkenums \
+               " 
 
 do_compile:prepend() {
     mkdir -p xfce4-notifyd xfce4-notifyd-config