diff --git a/packages/databases/mysql-hosttools/build b/packages/databases/mysql-hosttools/build
index 53875838a0..c6f7578880 100755
--- a/packages/databases/mysql-hosttools/build
+++ b/packages/databases/mysql-hosttools/build
@@ -7,12 +7,8 @@ $SCRIPTS/unpack mysql
 setup_toolchain host
 
 cd $BUILD/mysql*
-
-$AUTORECONF
-
-mkdir -p .objdir-host
-cd .objdir-host
-
+do_autoreconf
+mkdir -p .objdir-host && cd .objdir-host
 ../configure --prefix=/usr \
              --sysconfdir=/etc \
              --libexecdir=/usr/sbin \
diff --git a/packages/databases/mysql-hosttools/meta b/packages/databases/mysql-hosttools/meta
index 5d71bc3650..8f6ccd06cd 100644
--- a/packages/databases/mysql-hosttools/meta
+++ b/packages/databases/mysql-hosttools/meta
@@ -12,3 +12,5 @@ PKG_SECTION="database"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="mysql: A database server"
 PKG_LONGDESC="MySQL is a SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. SQL is the most popular database language in the world. MySQL is a client server implementation that consists of a server daemon mysqld and many different client programs/libraries."
 PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
+
+PKG_AUTORECONF="no"