diff --git a/package/libusb-compat/libusb-compat.hash b/package/libusb-compat/libusb-compat.hash
index a198e76058..b22fa5434d 100644
--- a/package/libusb-compat/libusb-compat.hash
+++ b/package/libusb-compat/libusb-compat.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Locally computed:
-sha256  698c76484f3dec1e0175067cbd1556c3021e94e7f2313ae3ea6a66d900e00827  libusb-compat-0.1.8.tar.bz2
+sha256  d199c173fd3cd9d27c7f4bb6608befc7eb761984e6664da7d9d4386ff66fe6fc  libusb-compat-0.1.8.tar.gz
 sha256  5df07007198989c622f5d41de8d703e7bef3d0e79d62e24332ee739a452af62a  COPYING
diff --git a/package/libusb-compat/libusb-compat.mk b/package/libusb-compat/libusb-compat.mk
index d49b753670..b54dbded27 100644
--- a/package/libusb-compat/libusb-compat.mk
+++ b/package/libusb-compat/libusb-compat.mk
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 
 LIBUSB_COMPAT_VERSION_MAJOR = 0.1
 LIBUSB_COMPAT_VERSION = $(LIBUSB_COMPAT_VERSION_MAJOR).8
-LIBUSB_COMPAT_SOURCE = libusb-compat-$(LIBUSB_COMPAT_VERSION).tar.bz2
 LIBUSB_COMPAT_SITE = https://github.com/libusb/libusb-compat-0.1/releases/download/v$(LIBUSB_COMPAT_VERSION)
 LIBUSB_COMPAT_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf libusb
 HOST_LIBUSB_COMPAT_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf host-libusb
@@ -14,9 +13,6 @@ LIBUSB_COMPAT_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
 LIBUSB_COMPAT_CONFIG_SCRIPTS = libusb-config
 LIBUSB_COMPAT_LICENSE = LGPL-2.1+
 LIBUSB_COMPAT_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
-# 0.1.8 tarball was released without configure script by upstream
-# discussed here: https://github.com/libusb/libusb-compat-0.1/issues/28
-LIBUSB_COMPAT_AUTORECONF = YES
 
 ifeq ($(BR2_STATIC_LIBS),)
 LIBUSB_COMPAT_CONF_ENV += \