diff --git a/packages/other/libIDL/build b/packages/other/libIDL/build
index 9cdd76be28..79a4055ce0 100755
--- a/packages/other/libIDL/build
+++ b/packages/other/libIDL/build
@@ -2,13 +2,9 @@
 
 . config/options $1
 
-$SCRIPTS/build toolchain
-$SCRIPTS/build glib
-
 cd $PKG_BUILD
 
-mkdir -p .build-target
-cd .build-target
+mkdir -p .build-target && cd .build-target
 
 libIDL_cv_long_long_format=ll \
 ../configure --host=$TARGET_NAME \
diff --git a/packages/other/libIDL/install b/packages/other/libIDL/install
index bda1a1af20..f08009babd 100755
--- a/packages/other/libIDL/install
+++ b/packages/other/libIDL/install
@@ -2,7 +2,5 @@
 
 . config/options $1
 
-$SCRIPTS/install glib
-
 mkdir -p $INSTALL/usr/lib
   cp -P $PKG_BUILD/.build-target/.libs/*.so* $INSTALL/usr/lib
diff --git a/packages/other/libIDL/meta b/packages/other/libIDL/meta
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..02c6e576ce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/other/libIDL/meta
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+PKG_NAME="libIDL"
+PKG_VERSION="0.8.14"
+PKG_REV="1"
+PKG_ARCH="any"
+PKG_LICENSE="LGPL"
+PKG_SITE="http://www.gnome.org"
+PKG_URL="ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libIDL/0.8/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.bz2"
+PKG_DEPENDS="glib"
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="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"
diff --git a/packages/other/libIDL/url b/packages/other/libIDL/url
deleted file mode 100644
index 3b1f067825..0000000000
--- a/packages/other/libIDL/url
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libIDL/0.8/libIDL-0.8.14.tar.bz2
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