diff --git a/packages/addons/addon-depends/rsyslog-depends/libestr/package.mk b/packages/addons/addon-depends/rsyslog-depends/libestr/package.mk
index b33890094f..07c4f728c5 100644
--- a/packages/addons/addon-depends/rsyslog-depends/libestr/package.mk
+++ b/packages/addons/addon-depends/rsyslog-depends/libestr/package.mk
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ PKG_SECTION="rsyslog"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="libestr: some essentials for string handling (and a bit more)"
 PKG_LONGDESC="libestr: some essentials for string handling (and a bit more)"
 
-PKG_AUTORECONF="yes"
+PKG_AUTORECONF="no"
 PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
 
 PKG_CONFIGURE_OPTS_TARGET="--enable-static --disable-shared \