diff --git a/package/libva-intel-driver/libva-intel-driver.mk b/package/libva-intel-driver/libva-intel-driver.mk
index 575520717c..8469314081 100644
--- a/package/libva-intel-driver/libva-intel-driver.mk
+++ b/package/libva-intel-driver/libva-intel-driver.mk
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ LIBVA_INTEL_DRIVER_SOURCE = libva-intel-driver-$(LIBVA_INTEL_DRIVER_VERSION).tar
 LIBVA_INTEL_DRIVER_SITE = http://www.freedesktop.org/software/vaapi/releases/libva-intel-driver
 LIBVA_INTEL_DRIVER_LICENSE = MIT
 LIBVA_INTEL_DRIVER_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
+# needed to work around https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79478
+LIBVA_INTEL_DRIVER_AUTORECONF = YES
 LIBVA_INTEL_DRIVER_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf libdrm libva
 
 ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_XORG7),y)
@@ -19,7 +21,7 @@ LIBVA_INTEL_DRIVER_CONF_OPTS += --disable-x11
 endif
 
 ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_WAYLAND),y)
-LIBVA_DEPENDENCIES += wayland
+LIBVA_INTEL_DRIVER_DEPENDENCIES += wayland
 LIBVA_INTEL_DRIVER_CONF_OPTS += --enable-wayland
 else
 LIBVA_INTEL_DRIVER_CONF_OPTS += --disable-wayland