diff --git a/dev-ml/stdcompat/stdcompat-19.ebuild b/dev-ml/stdcompat/stdcompat-19-r1.ebuild
similarity index 87%
rename from dev-ml/stdcompat/stdcompat-19.ebuild
rename to dev-ml/stdcompat/stdcompat-19-r1.ebuild
index edb7ebbf80a02..731c0bed6669e 100644
--- a/dev-ml/stdcompat/stdcompat-19.ebuild
+++ b/dev-ml/stdcompat/stdcompat-19-r1.ebuild
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
-# Copyright 2022-2023 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 2022-2024 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=8
 
+inherit autotools
+
 DESCRIPTION="Compatibility module for OCaml standard library"
 HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/thierry-martinez/stdcompat"
 SRC_URI="https://github.com/thierry-martinez/stdcompat/releases/download/v${PV}/${P}.tar.gz"
@@ -22,6 +24,11 @@ BDEPEND="
 # Do not complain about CFLAGS etc since ml projects do not use them.
 QA_FLAGS_IGNORED='.*'
 
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+	eautoreconf
+}
+
 src_configure () {
 	econf --libdir="${EPREFIX}"/usr/$(get_libdir)/ocaml
 }