diff --git a/srcpkgs/libva/template b/srcpkgs/libva/template
index 60931f9431..fa3c113f24 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/libva/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/libva/template
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ distfiles="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/vaapi/releases/libva/libva-${_dis
 checksum=e946d4b3110e4e23ec6a588e0c828937e502c67196d1266214441fefc4b83486
 
 pre_configure() {
-        libtoolize -f
+	touch aclocal.m4 Makefile.in config.h.in
+	libtoolize -f
 }
 post_install() {
 	vlicense COPYING