diff --git a/package/gobject-introspection/gobject-introspection.mk b/package/gobject-introspection/gobject-introspection.mk
index c8ad9b3c72..0d8c666ba1 100644
--- a/package/gobject-introspection/gobject-introspection.mk
+++ b/package/gobject-introspection/gobject-introspection.mk
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ GOBJECT_INTROSPECTION_VERSION = $(GOBJECT_INTROSPECTION_VERSION_MAJOR).0
 GOBJECT_INTROSPECTION_SITE = http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gobject-introspection/$(GOBJECT_INTROSPECTION_VERSION_MAJOR)
 GOBJECT_INTROSPECTION_SOURCE = gobject-introspection-$(GOBJECT_INTROSPECTION_VERSION).tar.xz
 GOBJECT_INTROSPECTION_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
-GOBJECT_INTROSPECTION_AUTORECONF = YES
 GOBJECT_INTROSPECTION_LICENSE = LGPL-2.0+, GPL-2.0+, BSD-2-Clause
 GOBJECT_INTROSPECTION_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING.LGPL COPYING.GPL giscanner/scannerlexer.l