diff --git a/package/watchdog/watchdog.mk b/package/watchdog/watchdog.mk
index b814fdc672..2699fb474f 100644
--- a/package/watchdog/watchdog.mk
+++ b/package/watchdog/watchdog.mk
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 
 WATCHDOG_VERSION = 5.16
 WATCHDOG_SITE = http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/watchdog
-WATCHDOG_AUTORECONF = YES
 WATCHDOG_LICENSE = GPL-2.0+
 WATCHDOG_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
 # By default installs binaries in /usr/sbin/, but we want them in