diff --git a/packages/other/fribidi/meta b/packages/other/fribidi/meta
index d8c3928661..03270c8810 100644
--- a/packages/other/fribidi/meta
+++ b/packages/other/fribidi/meta
@@ -12,3 +12,5 @@ PKG_SECTION="other"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="fribidi: The Bidirectional Algorithm library"
 PKG_LONGDESC="The library implements all of the algorithm as described in the Unicode Standard Annex #9, The Bidirectional Algorithm, http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr9/. FriBidi is exhautively tested against Bidi Reference Code, and due to our best knowledge, does not contain any conformance bugs."
 PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
+
+PKG_AUTORECONF="yes"