New comment by lfdebrux on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/34866#issuecomment-1006400843

Comment:
> Alternatively, apply https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gettext.git;a=patch;h=d1836dbbd6a90b4c0ab79bc5292c023f08b49511

Oh, that's interesting, nice find!

Forgive my ignorance, but what's the advantage of running autoreconf before cross-compiling?