diff --git a/package/libs/gettext-full/Makefile b/package/libs/gettext-full/Makefile
index 1ed0e82df05899..eb5b6d31bd2c52 100644
--- a/package/libs/gettext-full/Makefile
+++ b/package/libs/gettext-full/Makefile
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ PKG_INSTALL:=1
 PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS:=gettext-full/host libunistring libxml2
 PKG_BUILD_PARALLEL:=0
 
+PKG_FIXUP:=autoreconf
+
 HOST_BUILD_DEPENDS:=gperf/host libunistring/host libxml2/host
 HOST_BUILD_PARALLEL:=0