diff --git a/srcpkgs/libnxml/template b/srcpkgs/libnxml/template
index 769a9db24ec..ccc317bd375 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/libnxml/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/libnxml/template
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ version=0.18.3
 revision=3
 build_style=gnu-configure
 makedepends="libcurl-devel"
+hostmakedepends="automake libtool"
 short_desc="A C library for parsing, writing and creating XML"
 maintainer="Enno Boland <gottox@voidlinux.eu>"
 license="LGPL-2.1-or-later"
@@ -11,6 +12,11 @@ homepage="http://www.autistici.org/bakunin/libnxml/doc/"
 distfiles="https://github.com/bakulf/libnxml/archive/${version}.tar.gz"
 checksum=30d733bade81273fa8e66c40271f629a548da83fcd6037ff0105a4f2a4e6fd75
 
+pre_configure() {
+	touch NEWS
+	autoreconf -fi
+}
+
 libnxml-devel_package() {
 	depends="${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision} $makedepends"
 	short_desc+=" - development files"