diff --git a/packages/multimedia/SDL/package.mk b/packages/multimedia/SDL/package.mk
index 00cb480c79..d3fc66849e 100644
--- a/packages/multimedia/SDL/package.mk
+++ b/packages/multimedia/SDL/package.mk
@@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ PKG_ARCH="any"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.libsdl.org/"
 PKG_URL="http://www.libsdl.org/release/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
-PKG_DEPENDS_HOST="alsa-lib" # todo: hack: autoreconf depends on alsa-lib's m4 files, so build here
+PKG_DEPENDS_HOST=""
 PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="alsa-lib"
-PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS_HOST="toolchain yasm:host"
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS_HOST="toolchain yasm:host alsa-lib" # todo: hack: autoreconf depends on alsa-lib's m4 files, so build here
 PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain yasm:host alsa-lib"
 PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
 PKG_SECTION="multimedia"