diff --git a/srcpkgs/pcre2/template b/srcpkgs/pcre2/template
index d8132a3f217..b5b7beefda0 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/pcre2/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/pcre2/template
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ build_style=gnu-configure
 configure_args="--with-pic --enable-pcre2-16 --enable-pcre2-32
 --enable-pcre2test-libreadline --enable-pcre2grep-libz --enable-pcre2grep-libbz2
 --enable-newline-is-anycrlf --enable-jit --enable-static"
-hostmakedepends="automake libtool"
 makedepends="zlib-devel bzip2-devel readline-devel"
 short_desc="Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (2nd version)"
 maintainer="Enno Boland <gottox@voidlinux.org>"
@@ -19,10 +18,6 @@ post_install() {
 	vlicense LICENCE
 }
 
-pre_configure() {
-	autoreconf -fi
-}
-
 libpcre2_package() {
 	short_desc+=" - shared libraries"
 	pkg_install() {