diff --git a/packages/other/libIDL-host/meta b/packages/other/libIDL-host/meta
index 6f6618f1c8..302adf4b65 100644
--- a/packages/other/libIDL-host/meta
+++ b/packages/other/libIDL-host/meta
@@ -12,3 +12,5 @@ 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"