diff --git a/packages/other/libIDL-host/build b/packages/other/libIDL-host/build
deleted file mode 100755
index 960d9da4eb..0000000000
--- a/packages/other/libIDL-host/build
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-################################################################################
-#      This file is part of OpenELEC - http://www.openelec.tv
-#      Copyright (C) 2009-2014 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
-#
-#  OpenELEC is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-#  the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
-#  (at your option) any later version.
-#
-#  OpenELEC is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-#  GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-#  along with OpenELEC.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-################################################################################
-
-. config/options $1
-
-$SCRIPTS/unpack libIDL
-
-setup_toolchain host
-
-cd $BUILD/libIDL*
-mkdir -p .build-host && cd .build-host
-
-libIDL_cv_long_long_format=ll \
-../configure --host=$HOST_NAME \
-             --build=$HOST_NAME \
-             --prefix=$ROOT/$TOOLCHAIN
-
-$SED "s:pkg-config :PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$HOST_PKG_CONFIG_PATH $PKG_CONFIG :" libIDL-config-2
-
-make
-make install
diff --git a/packages/other/libIDL-host/meta b/packages/other/libIDL-host/meta
deleted file mode 100644
index 7d48f71c34..0000000000
--- a/packages/other/libIDL-host/meta
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-################################################################################
-#      This file is part of OpenELEC - http://www.openelec.tv
-#      Copyright (C) 2009-2014 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
-#
-#  OpenELEC is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-#  the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
-#  (at your option) any later version.
-#
-#  OpenELEC is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-#  GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-#  along with OpenELEC.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-################################################################################
-
-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"
-
-PKG_AUTORECONF="yes"
diff --git a/packages/other/libIDL/build b/packages/other/libIDL/build
deleted file mode 100755
index 76467808f3..0000000000
--- a/packages/other/libIDL/build
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-################################################################################
-#      This file is part of OpenELEC - http://www.openelec.tv
-#      Copyright (C) 2009-2014 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
-#
-#  OpenELEC is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-#  the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
-#  (at your option) any later version.
-#
-#  OpenELEC is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-#  GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-#  along with OpenELEC.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-################################################################################
-
-. config/options $1
-
-cd $PKG_BUILD
-
-mkdir -p .build-target && cd .build-target
-
-libIDL_cv_long_long_format=ll \
-../configure --host=$TARGET_NAME \
-             --build=$HOST_NAME \
-             --prefix=/usr \
-             --sysconfdir=/etc \
-             --disable-static \
-             --enable-shared \
-
-make
-$MAKEINSTALL
diff --git a/packages/other/libIDL/install b/packages/other/libIDL/install
deleted file mode 100755
index b4eb59490e..0000000000
--- a/packages/other/libIDL/install
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-################################################################################
-#      This file is part of OpenELEC - http://www.openelec.tv
-#      Copyright (C) 2009-2014 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
-#
-#  OpenELEC is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-#  the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
-#  (at your option) any later version.
-#
-#  OpenELEC is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-#  GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-#  along with OpenELEC.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-################################################################################
-
-. config/options $1
-
-mkdir -p $INSTALL/usr/lib
-  cp -P $PKG_BUILD/.build-target/.libs/*.so* $INSTALL/usr/lib
diff --git a/packages/other/libIDL/meta b/packages/other/libIDL/package.mk
similarity index 78%
rename from packages/other/libIDL/meta
rename to packages/other/libIDL/package.mk
index aa80ed688a..39fb46810a 100644
--- a/packages/other/libIDL/meta
+++ b/packages/other/libIDL/package.mk
@@ -24,11 +24,23 @@ PKG_LICENSE="LGPL"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.gnome.org"
 PKG_URL="http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libIDL/0.8/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.bz2"
 PKG_DEPENDS="glib"
-PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain glib"
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS_HOST="toolchain glib:host"
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain glib"
 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"
 
+PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
 PKG_AUTORECONF="yes"
+
+PKG_CONFIGURE_OPTS_HOST="libIDL_cv_long_long_format=ll"
+PKG_CONFIGURE_OPTS_TARGET="libIDL_cv_long_long_format=ll"
+
+post_makeinstall_host() {
+  sed -e "s:pkg-config :PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$HOST_PKG_CONFIG_PATH $PKG_CONFIG :" -i libIDL-config-2
+}
+
+post_makeinstall_target() {
+  rm -rf $INSTALL/usr/bin
+}