diff --git a/packages/other/libIDL/meta b/packages/other/libIDL/meta
index 02c6e576ce..d2acad1a0a 100644
--- a/packages/other/libIDL/meta
+++ b/packages/other/libIDL/meta
@@ -12,3 +12,5 @@ PKG_SECTION="other"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="libidl: Library for creating trees of CORBA IDL files"
 PKG_LONGDESC="libIDL is a library for creating trees of CORBA Interface Definition Language (IDL) files."
 PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
+
+PKG_AUTORECONF="yes"