diff --git a/packages/sysutils/libatasmart/build b/packages/sysutils/libatasmart/build
index 9238612c91..a6c30371f2 100755
--- a/packages/sysutils/libatasmart/build
+++ b/packages/sysutils/libatasmart/build
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 . config/options $1
 
 cd $PKG_BUILD
+
+mkdir -p m4 && do_autoreconf
 ./configure --host=$TARGET_NAME \
             --build=$HOST_NAME \
             --prefix=/usr \
diff --git a/packages/sysutils/libatasmart/meta b/packages/sysutils/libatasmart/meta
index eef58d5f21..f9728caa87 100644
--- a/packages/sysutils/libatasmart/meta
+++ b/packages/sysutils/libatasmart/meta
@@ -12,3 +12,5 @@ PKG_SECTION="system"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="libatasmart: a lean, small and clean implementation of an ATA S.M.A.R.T. reading and parsing library"
 PKG_LONGDESC="libatasmart is a lean, small and clean implementation of an ATA S.M.A.R.T. reading and parsing library. It's fairly comprehensive, however I only support a subset of the full S.M.A.R.T. set of functions: those parts which made sense to me, not the esoteric stuff."
 PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
+
+PKG_AUTORECONF="no"