diff --git a/srcpkgs/mono/template b/srcpkgs/mono/template
index 5c93fe5302..422c640789 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/mono/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/mono/template
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ lib32disabled=yes
 build_style=gnu-configure
 configure_args="--disable-static --disable-system-aot"
 # XXX: figure out how to split this up into subpkgs.
-hostmakedepends="libtool perl python"
+hostmakedepends="automake libtool perl python"
 makedepends="zlib-devel libX11-devel libgdiplus-devel"
 short_desc="Free implementation of the .NET platform including runtime and compiler"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@voidlinux.eu>"
@@ -14,4 +14,7 @@ homepage="http://www.go-mono.org"
 license="GPL-2, LGPL-2, MPL, MIT"
 distfiles="http://download.mono-project.com/sources/mono/$pkgname-$version.tar.bz2"
 checksum=ff1f15f3b8d43c6a2818c00fabe377b2d8408ad14acd9d507658b4cae00f5bce
-nocross=yes
+
+pre_configure() {
+	autoreconf -fi
+}