diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/pure-ftpd/pure-ftpd_1.0.52.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/pure-ftpd/pure-ftpd_1.0.52.bb
index 1ce3c468b7..8a56ad5078 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/pure-ftpd/pure-ftpd_1.0.52.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/pure-ftpd/pure-ftpd_1.0.52.bb
@@ -15,5 +15,7 @@ SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "1126f3a95856d08889ff89703cb1aa9ec9924d939d154e96904c920f05
 
 inherit autotools
 
+EXTRA_AUTORECONF += "-I m4"
+
 PACKAGECONFIG[libsodium] ="ac_cv_lib_sodium_crypto_pwhash_scryptsalsa208sha256_str=yes, \
                            ac_cv_lib_sodium_crypto_pwhash_scryptsalsa208sha256_str=no, libsodium"