diff --git a/packages/toolchain/devel/autotools/autoconf/meta b/packages/toolchain/devel/autotools/autoconf/meta
index 0a7834e6d2..05343207ce 100644
--- a/packages/toolchain/devel/autotools/autoconf/meta
+++ b/packages/toolchain/devel/autotools/autoconf/meta
@@ -12,3 +12,5 @@ PKG_SECTION="toolchain/devel"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="autoconf: A GNU tool for automatically configuring source code"
 PKG_LONGDESC="Autoconf is an extensible package of m4 macros that produce shell scripts to automatically configure software source code packages. These scripts can adapt the packages to many kinds of UNIX-like systems without manual user intervention. Autoconf creates a configuration script for a package from a template file that lists the operating system features that the package can use, in the form of m4 macro calls."
 PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
+
+PKG_AUTORECONF="no"