diff --git a/packages/debug/gdb/meta b/packages/debug/gdb/meta
index 25b3f9037c..a9f6b6353f 100644
--- a/packages/debug/gdb/meta
+++ b/packages/debug/gdb/meta
@@ -12,3 +12,5 @@ PKG_SECTION="debug"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="gdb: The GNU Debugger"
 PKG_LONGDESC="The purpose of a debugger such as GDB is to allow you to see what is going on ``inside'' another program while it executes--or what another program was doing at the moment it crashed."
 PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
+
+PKG_AUTORECONF="no"