diff --git a/package/postgis/postgis.mk b/package/postgis/postgis.mk
index 2fb98245a3..bb3955ec54 100644
--- a/package/postgis/postgis.mk
+++ b/package/postgis/postgis.mk
@@ -11,8 +11,6 @@ POSTGIS_MAKE = $(MAKE1)
 POSTGIS_LICENSE = GPL-2.0+ (PostGIS), BSD-3-Clause (xsl), GPL-2.0+ or LGPL-3.0+ (SFCGAL), MIT, Apache-2.0, ISC, BSL-1.0, CC-BY-SA-3.0
 POSTGIS_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE.TXT
 POSTGIS_CPE_ID_VENDOR = postgis
-# configure.ac is patched so need to run autoreconf
-POSTGIS_AUTORECONF = YES
 
 POSTGIS_DEPENDENCIES = postgresql libgeos proj libxml2