diff --git a/recipes-support/mxml/files/0002-don-t-loose-our-LDFLAGS.patch b/recipes-support/mxml/files/0002-don-t-loose-our-LDFLAGS.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3371d1ac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-support/mxml/files/0002-don-t-loose-our-LDFLAGS.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+From 358fe387d07b4906c823b2a664f3c57fd62acd3e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?Andreas=20M=C3=BCller?= <schnitzeltony@googlemail.com>
+Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 18:24:29 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] don't loose our LDFLAGS
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+Upstream-Status: Pending
+
+Signed-off-by: Andreas Müller <schnitzeltony@googlemail.com>
+---
+ Makefile.in | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/Makefile.in b/Makefile.in
+index 789677a..f3b3b62 100644
+--- a/Makefile.in
++++ b/Makefile.in
+@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ CC		=	@CC@
+ CFLAGS		=	$(OPTIM) $(ARCHFLAGS) @CFLAGS@ @CPPFLAGS@ @PTHREAD_FLAGS@
+ CP		=	@CP@
+ DSO		=	@DSO@
+-DSOFLAGS	=	@DSOFLAGS@
++DSOFLAGS	=	$(LDFLAGS) @DSOFLAGS@
+ LDFLAGS		=	$(OPTIM) $(ARCHFLAGS) @LDFLAGS@
+ INSTALL		=	@INSTALL@
+ LIBMXML		=	@LIBMXML@
+-- 
+2.9.3
+
diff --git a/recipes-support/mxml/mxml_2.10.bb b/recipes-support/mxml/mxml_2.10.bb
index fbef80de..291d0a11 100644
--- a/recipes-support/mxml/mxml_2.10.bb
+++ b/recipes-support/mxml/mxml_2.10.bb
@@ -7,16 +7,14 @@ DEPENDS = ""
 SRC_URI = " \
     http://www.msweet.org/files/project3/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.gz \
     file://0001-avoid-testing-library-in-cross-environments.patch \
+    file://0002-don-t-loose-our-LDFLAGS.patch \
 "
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "8804c961a24500a95690ef287d150abe"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "267ff58b64ddc767170d71dab0c729c06f45e1df9a9b6f75180b564f09767891"
 
 inherit autotools-brokensep
 
-do_configure() {
-    # reconfigure fails - have no idea why
-    oe_runconf
-}
+EXTRA_AUTORECONF += "--exclude=autoheader"
 
 do_install() {
     install -d ${D}${includedir}