diff --git a/pkgs/applications/window-managers/jwm/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/jwm/default.nix
index 8a9b72265b99..49894bd0daa2 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/window-managers/jwm/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/jwm/default.nix
@@ -1,41 +1,79 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, pkg-config, autoreconfHook, gettext
-, which, xorg, libX11, libXext, libXinerama, libXpm, libXft, libXau, libXdmcp
-, libXmu, libpng, libjpeg, expat, xorgproto, librsvg, freetype, fontconfig }:
+{ lib
+, stdenv
+, fetchFromGitHub
+, autoconf
+, automake
+, expat
+, fontconfig
+, freetype
+, gettext
+, libX11
+, libXau
+, libXdmcp
+, libXext
+, libXft
+, libXinerama
+, libXmu
+, libXpm
+, libjpeg
+, libpng
+, librsvg
+, pango
+, pkg-config
+, which
+, xorg
+, xorgproto
+, gitUpdater
+}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "jwm";
-  version = "2.4.1";
+  version = "2.4.2";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "joewing";
     repo = "jwm";
     rev = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "sha256-7CEL2ddlABM7SYjMVUs3pu0O+2cVsz04slsdUIbgZuM=";
+    sha256 = "sha256-rvuz2Pmon3XBqRMgDwZNrQlWDyLNSK30JPmmQTlN+Rs=";
   };
 
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config gettext which autoreconfHook ];
-
-  buildInputs = [
-    libX11
-    libXext
-    libXinerama
-    libXpm
-    libXft
-    xorg.libXrender
-    libXau
-    libXdmcp
-    libXmu
-    libpng
-    libjpeg
-    expat
-    xorgproto
-    librsvg
-    freetype
-    fontconfig
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    autoconf
+    automake
+    gettext
+    pkg-config
+    which
   ];
 
+  buildInputs = [
+    expat
+    fontconfig
+    freetype
+    libX11
+    libXau
+    libXdmcp
+    libXext
+    libXft
+    libXinerama
+    libXmu
+    libXpm
+    libjpeg
+    libpng
+    librsvg
+    pango
+    xorg.libXrender
+    xorgproto
+  ];
+
+  preConfigure = "NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh";
+
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
+  passthru.updateScript = gitUpdater {
+    inherit pname version;
+    rev-prefix = "v";
+  };
+
   meta = {
     homepage = "http://joewing.net/projects/jwm/";
     description = "Joe's Window Manager is a light-weight X11 window manager";