diff --git a/packages/other/libIDL-host/build b/packages/other/libIDL-host/build
index 2a6da1f4ae..946108d5d0 100755
--- a/packages/other/libIDL-host/build
+++ b/packages/other/libIDL-host/build
@@ -2,16 +2,12 @@
 
 . config/options $1
 
-$SCRIPTS/build toolchain
-$SCRIPTS/build glib-host
 $SCRIPTS/unpack libIDL
 
 setup_toolchain host
 
 cd $BUILD/libIDL*
-
-mkdir -p .build-host
-cd .build-host
+mkdir -p .build-host && cd .build-host
 
 libIDL_cv_long_long_format=ll \
 ../configure --prefix=$ROOT/$TOOLCHAIN
diff --git a/packages/other/libIDL-host/meta b/packages/other/libIDL-host/meta
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6f6618f1c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/other/libIDL-host/meta
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+PKG_NAME="libIDL"
+PKG_VERSION=""
+PKG_REV="1"
+PKG_ARCH="any"
+PKG_LICENSE="LGPL"
+PKG_SITE="http://www.gnome.org"
+PKG_URL=""
+PKG_DEPENDS=""
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain glib-host"
+PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
+PKG_SECTION="other"
+PKG_SHORTDESC="libidl: Library for creating trees of CORBA IDL files"
+PKG_LONGDESC="libIDL is a library for creating trees of CORBA Interface Definition Language (IDL) files."
+PKG_IS_ADDON="no"