diff --git a/packages/toolchain/devel/autotools/autoconf/meta b/packages/toolchain/devel/autotools/autoconf/meta
index d94be5de0b..f5562ee6b8 100644
--- a/packages/toolchain/devel/autotools/autoconf/meta
+++ b/packages/toolchain/devel/autotools/autoconf/meta
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
 PKG_SITE="http://sources.redhat.com/autoconf/"
 PKG_URL="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.xz"
 PKG_DEPENDS=""
-PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="ccache m4 gettext"
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="ccache m4 gettext:host"
 PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
 PKG_SECTION="toolchain/devel"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="autoconf: A GNU tool for automatically configuring source code"