diff --git a/packages/network/libtirpc/build b/packages/network/libtirpc/build
deleted file mode 100755
index a3f36cd171..0000000000
--- a/packages/network/libtirpc/build
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-################################################################################
-#      This file is part of OpenELEC - http://www.openelec.tv
-#      Copyright (C) 2009-2014 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
-#
-#  OpenELEC is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-#  the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
-#  (at your option) any later version.
-#
-#  OpenELEC is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-#  GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-#  along with OpenELEC.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-################################################################################
-
-. config/options $1
-
-cd $PKG_BUILD
-./configure --host=$TARGET_NAME \
-            --build=$HOST_NAME \
-            --prefix=/usr \
-            --sysconfdir=/etc \
-            --disable-static \
-            --enable-shared \
-            --enable-gss \
-            --with-gnu-ld
-
-make
-$MAKEINSTALL
diff --git a/packages/network/libtirpc/install b/packages/network/libtirpc/install
deleted file mode 100755
index 275c20fe6c..0000000000
--- a/packages/network/libtirpc/install
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-################################################################################
-#      This file is part of OpenELEC - http://www.openelec.tv
-#      Copyright (C) 2009-2014 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
-#
-#  OpenELEC is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-#  the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
-#  (at your option) any later version.
-#
-#  OpenELEC is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-#  GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-#  along with OpenELEC.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-################################################################################
-
-. config/options $1
-
-mkdir -p $INSTALL/usr/lib
-  cp -P $PKG_BUILD/src/.libs/*.so* $INSTALL/usr/lib
-
-mkdir -p $INSTALL/etc
-  cp $PKG_BUILD/doc/etc_netconfig $INSTALL/etc/netconfig
-
diff --git a/packages/network/libtirpc/meta b/packages/network/libtirpc/package.mk
similarity index 91%
rename from packages/network/libtirpc/meta
rename to packages/network/libtirpc/package.mk
index 0381cda514..f7d28098a9 100644
--- a/packages/network/libtirpc/meta
+++ b/packages/network/libtirpc/package.mk
@@ -23,12 +23,14 @@ PKG_ARCH="any"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
 PKG_SITE="https://sourceforge.net/projects/libtirpc/"
 PKG_URL="https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/libtirpc/libtirpc/$PKG_VERSION/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.bz2"
-PKG_DEPENDS="libgssglue"
-PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain libgssglue"
+PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="libgssglue"
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain libgssglue"
 PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
 PKG_SECTION="network"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="libtirpc: Transport Independent RPC Library"
 PKG_LONGDESC="Libtirpc is a port of Suns Transport-Independent RPC library to Linux. It's being developed by the Bull GNU/Linux NFSv4 project."
-PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
 
+PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
 PKG_AUTORECONF="yes"
+
+PKG_CONFIGURE_OPTS_TARGET="--enable-gss --with-gnu-ld"
diff --git a/packages/network/libtirpc/patches/libtirpc-buildfix.patch b/packages/network/libtirpc/patches/libtirpc-buildfix.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c2814c74f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/network/libtirpc/patches/libtirpc-buildfix.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+diff -Naur libtirpc-0.2.2/doc/Makefile.am libtirpc-0.2.2.patch/doc/Makefile.am
+--- libtirpc-0.2.2/doc/Makefile.am	2011-05-02 14:10:40.000000000 +0200
++++ libtirpc-0.2.2.patch/doc/Makefile.am	2014-01-10 06:17:51.829113901 +0100
+@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
+ 
+ install: install-am
+ 	$(mkinstalldirs) $(DESTDIR)/$(sysconfdir)
+-	cp -p ./etc_netconfig $(DESTDIR)/$(sysconfdir)/netconfig
++	cp -p $(top_srcdir)/doc/etc_netconfig $(DESTDIR)/$(sysconfdir)/netconfig
+ 	chmod 0644 $(DESTDIR)/$(sysconfdir)/netconfig