diff --git a/meta/classes/autotools.bbclass b/meta/classes/autotools.bbclass
index e4e034b..d0aad0d 100644
--- a/meta/classes/autotools.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/autotools.bbclass
@@ -99,6 +99,12 @@ autotools_preconfigure() {
 			mkdir ${B}
 		fi
 	fi
+
+	# not all recipes which use autotools use it's do_configure
+	( for ac in `find ${S} -name configure.in -o -name configure.ac`; do
+		install -m 0755 ${STAGING_DATADIR_NATIVE}/gnu-config/config.guess `dirname $ac`
+		install -m 0755 ${STAGING_DATADIR_NATIVE}/gnu-config/config.sub   `dirname $ac`
+		done )
 }
 
 autotools_postconfigure(){