diff --git a/packages/devel/eggdbus-host/build b/packages/devel/eggdbus-host/build
index 0b80611e8d..be053b6d20 100755
--- a/packages/devel/eggdbus-host/build
+++ b/packages/devel/eggdbus-host/build
@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ EGGDBUS_DIR=`ls -d $BUILD/eggdbus-[0-9]*`
 setup_toolchain host
 
 cd $EGGDBUS_DIR
-mkdir -p .build-host
+do_autoreconf
 
-cd .build-host
+mkdir -p .build-host && cd .build-host
 ../configure --prefix=$ROOT/$TOOLCHAIN \
              --sysconfdir=$ROOT/$TOOLCHAIN/etc \
              --disable-static \
diff --git a/packages/devel/eggdbus-host/meta b/packages/devel/eggdbus-host/meta
index d8f8d47f92..acedfb99be 100644
--- a/packages/devel/eggdbus-host/meta
+++ b/packages/devel/eggdbus-host/meta
@@ -12,3 +12,5 @@ PKG_SECTION="devel"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="eggdbus: D-Bus bindings for GObject"
 PKG_LONGDESC="D-Bus bindings for GObject."
 PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
+
+PKG_AUTORECONF="no"