diff --git a/packages/multimedia/SDL/build b/packages/multimedia/SDL/build
index 5359544df7..287b086b9a 100755
--- a/packages/multimedia/SDL/build
+++ b/packages/multimedia/SDL/build
@@ -3,6 +3,12 @@
 . config/options $1
 
 cd $PKG_BUILD
+
+rm -f acinclude/alsa.m4
+# Skip autoheader because there is a problem with AC_DEFINE's in the configure.in of SDL 1.2.14.
+# Added include directory 'acinclude' because SDL 1.2.14 has no Makefile.am in which to specify it.
+  AUTOHEADER="true" autoreconf --verbose --install --force -I $SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr/share/aclocal -I acinclude
+
 ./configure --host=$TARGET_NAME \
             --build=$HOST_NAME \
             --prefix=/usr \
diff --git a/packages/multimedia/SDL/meta b/packages/multimedia/SDL/meta
index 0214f7b0e5..13fcd74ec2 100644
--- a/packages/multimedia/SDL/meta
+++ b/packages/multimedia/SDL/meta
@@ -13,3 +13,4 @@ PKG_SHORTDESC="libsdl: A cross-platform Graphic API"
 PKG_LONGDESC="Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide fast access to the graphics framebuffer and audio device. It is used by MPEG playback software, emulators, and many popular games, including the award winning Linux port of 'Civilization: Call To Power.' Simple DirectMedia Layer supports Linux, Win32, BeOS, MacOS, Solaris, IRIX, and FreeBSD."
 PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
 
+PKG_AUTORECONF=""
diff --git a/packages/multimedia/SDL/patches/SDL-1.2.14-configure.patch b/packages/multimedia/SDL/patches/SDL-1.2.14-configure.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b6fdf484f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/multimedia/SDL/patches/SDL-1.2.14-configure.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+diff -Naur SDL-1.2.14-old/configure.in SDL-1.2.14-new/configure.in
+--- SDL-1.2.14-old/configure.in	2009-10-17 10:35:03.000000000 -0700
++++ SDL-1.2.14-new/configure.in	2010-08-17 16:42:33.000000000 -0700
+@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
+ AC_CONFIG_HEADER(include/SDL_config.h)
+ AC_GNU_SOURCE
+ AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIRS($srcdir/build-scripts)
++AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([acinclude])
+ 
+ dnl Set various version strings - taken gratefully from the GTk sources
+ #