diff --git a/network/misc/protobuf/actions.py b/network/misc/protobuf/actions.py
index f6ecd7b5ef..e2e92ea9e6 100644
--- a/network/misc/protobuf/actions.py
+++ b/network/misc/protobuf/actions.py
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ from pisi.actionsapi import shelltools
 from pisi.actionsapi import get
 
 def setup():
-    shelltools.export("PTHREAD_LIBS", "-lpthread")
-    shelltools.system("./autogen.sh")
+    #shelltools.system("./autogen.sh")
+    shelltools.copy("../googletest-release-1.7.0", "gtest")
     autotools.autoreconf("-vif")
     autotools.configure("--disable-static")
     
diff --git a/network/misc/protobuf/pspec.xml b/network/misc/protobuf/pspec.xml
index fa19b3ccf9..e6ca9edab8 100644
--- a/network/misc/protobuf/pspec.xml
+++ b/network/misc/protobuf/pspec.xml
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
         <Summary>Google's data interchange format</Summary>
         <Description>Protocol Buffers are a way of encoding structured data in an efficient yet extensible format. Google uses Protocol Buffers for almost all of its internal RPC protocols and file formats.</Description>
         <Archive sha1sum="d3bd3cfaa046d252e1b7c3c45106baab06b51f59" type="targz">http://source.pisilinux.org/1.0/protobuf-3.0.0-pre.tar.gz</Archive>
+        <Archive sha1sum="d7aa4b8536f3a007b480cf016be8a4333dbf4768" type="targz">https://github.com/google/googletest/archive/release-1.7.0.tar.gz</Archive>
         <BuildDependencies>
             <Dependency>python-setuptools</Dependency>
         </BuildDependencies>