diff --git a/bootstrap.sh b/bootstrap.sh
index a094692a..639fd82b 100755
--- a/bootstrap.sh
+++ b/bootstrap.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
-autoreconf -fvi
 ./scripts/update_eigen.sh eigen-3.2.9.tar.bz2
 ./scripts/filelist
+autoreconf -fvi