diff --git a/packages/multimedia/libvdpau/meta b/packages/multimedia/libvdpau/meta
index 16c37df127..3fdb44c405 100644
--- a/packages/multimedia/libvdpau/meta
+++ b/packages/multimedia/libvdpau/meta
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ PKG_SHORTDESC="libvdpau: a Video Decode and Presentation API for UNIX."
 PKG_LONGDESC="VDPAU is the Video Decode and Presentation API for UNIX. It provides an interface to video decode acceleration and presentation hardware present in modern GPUs."
 PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
 
+PKG_AUTORECONF="yes"
+
 if [ "$DEVTOOLS" = "yes" ]; then
   PKG_DEPENDS="$PKG_DEPENDS vdpauinfo"
 fi