diff --git a/packages/textproc/expat-host/build b/packages/textproc/expat-host/build
index d152a0018c..a3ef8f8563 100755
--- a/packages/textproc/expat-host/build
+++ b/packages/textproc/expat-host/build
@@ -7,8 +7,9 @@ $SCRIPTS/unpack expat
 setup_toolchain host
 
 cd $BUILD/expat-*
-mkdir -p .build-host && cd .build-host
+do_autoreconf -I conftools
 
+mkdir -p .build-host && cd .build-host
 ../configure --prefix=$ROOT/$TOOLCHAIN \
              --enable-shared \
              --disable-static \
diff --git a/packages/textproc/expat-host/meta b/packages/textproc/expat-host/meta
index 5460c1c7dd..dfa064ba5f 100644
--- a/packages/textproc/expat-host/meta
+++ b/packages/textproc/expat-host/meta
@@ -12,3 +12,5 @@ PKG_SECTION="textproc"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="expat: XML parser library"
 PKG_LONGDESC="Expat is an XML parser library written in C. It is a stream-oriented parser in which an application registers handlers for things the parser might find in the XML document (like start tags). An introductory article on using Expat is available on xml.com."
 PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
+
+PKG_AUTORECONF="no"