diff --git a/packages/devel/glib-host/build b/packages/devel/glib-host/build
index d364a3aaee..c9da785e21 100755
--- a/packages/devel/glib-host/build
+++ b/packages/devel/glib-host/build
@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@
 
 $SCRIPTS/unpack glib
 
+# hack: we need pkg.m4 for autoreconf, but pkgconfig depends on glib so install
+# pkg.m4 first
+  $SCRIPTS/unpack pkg-config
+  cp $BUILD/pkg-config-*/pkg.m4 $TOOLCHAIN/share/aclocal
+
 setup_toolchain host
 export ZLIB_CFLAGS=""
 export ZLIB_LIBS=""