diff --git a/packages/debug/htop/build b/packages/debug/htop/build
index 566f14ab9c..de26216428 100755
--- a/packages/debug/htop/build
+++ b/packages/debug/htop/build
@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@
 . config/options $1
 
 cd $PKG_BUILD
-$AUTORECONF
-
 ac_cv_func_malloc_0_nonnull=yes \
 ac_cv_func_realloc_0_nonnull=yes \
 ./configure --host=$TARGET_NAME \
diff --git a/packages/debug/htop/meta b/packages/debug/htop/meta
index 8ef3c5927a..5613f2a2f3 100644
--- a/packages/debug/htop/meta
+++ b/packages/debug/htop/meta
@@ -12,3 +12,5 @@ PKG_SECTION="debug"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="htop: Htop is an ncurses based interactive process viewer for Linux."
 PKG_LONGDESC="Htop is an ncurses based interactive process viewer for Linux."
 PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
+
+PKG_AUTORECONF="yes"