diff --git a/packages/textproc/xerces-c/meta b/packages/textproc/xerces-c/meta
index 8733b5c1e9..ee24c254e2 100644
--- a/packages/textproc/xerces-c/meta
+++ b/packages/textproc/xerces-c/meta
@@ -12,3 +12,5 @@ PKG_SECTION="textproc"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="xerces-c: A C++ XML parser"
 PKG_LONGDESC="Xerces C++ is a validating XML parser written in a portable subset of C++. It makes it easy to give your application the ability to read and write XML data. A shared library is provided for parsing, generating, manipulating, and validating XML documents. It is faithful to the XML 1. 0 recommendation and associated standards ( DOM 1. 0, DOM 2. 0. SAX 1. 0, SAX 2. 0, Namespaces). It also provides an implementation of a subset of the Schema."
 PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
+
+PKG_AUTORECONF="yes"