diff --git a/network/openvas-server/openvas-server.conf b/network/openvas-server/openvas-server.conf
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+# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
+# This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
+# 
+# Filename: package/.../openvas-server/openvas-server.conf
+# Copyright (C) 2007 The OpenSDE Project
+# 
+# More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
+# 
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License. A copy of the
+# GNU General Public License can be found in the file COPYING.
+# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
+
+# this is a hack that circumvents some issues with the build system
+# to be able to compile openvas-server using an alternative prefix
+var_remove_regex makeopt ' ' "prefix\=.*"