diff --git a/build-package.sh b/build-package.sh
index 41fbc7133f..cf2bf86d0b 100755
--- a/build-package.sh
+++ b/build-package.sh
@@ -75,115 +75,8 @@ termux_step_pre_configure() {
 	return
 }
 
-termux_step_configure_autotools() {
-	if [ ! -e "$TERMUX_PKG_SRCDIR/configure" ]; then return; fi
-
-	local DISABLE_STATIC="--disable-static"
-	if [ "$TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS" != "${TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS/--enable-static/}" ]; then
-		# Do not --disable-static if package explicitly enables it (e.g. gdb needs enable-static to build)
-		DISABLE_STATIC=""
-	fi
-
-	local DISABLE_NLS="--disable-nls"
-	if [ "$TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS" != "${TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS/--enable-nls/}" ]; then
-		# Do not --disable-nls if package explicitly enables it (for gettext itself)
-		DISABLE_NLS=""
-	fi
-
-	local ENABLE_SHARED="--enable-shared"
-	if [ "$TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS" != "${TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS/--disable-shared/}" ]; then
-		ENABLE_SHARED=""
-	fi
-
-	local HOST_FLAG="--host=$TERMUX_HOST_PLATFORM"
-	if [ "$TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS" != "${TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS/--host=/}" ]; then
-		HOST_FLAG=""
-	fi
-
-	local LIBEXEC_FLAG="--libexecdir=$TERMUX_PREFIX/libexec"
-	if [ "$TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS" != "${TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS/--libexecdir=/}" ]; then
-		LIBEXEC_FLAG=""
-	fi
-
-	local QUIET_BUILD=
-	if [ $TERMUX_QUIET_BUILD = true ]; then
-		QUIET_BUILD="--enable-silent-rules --silent --quiet"
-	fi
-
-	# Some packages provides a $PKG-config script which some configure scripts pickup instead of pkg-config:
-	mkdir "$TERMUX_PKG_TMPDIR/config-scripts"
-	for f in $TERMUX_PREFIX/bin/*config; do
-		test -f "$f" && cp "$f" "$TERMUX_PKG_TMPDIR/config-scripts"
-	done
-	export PATH=$TERMUX_PKG_TMPDIR/config-scripts:$PATH
-
-	# Avoid gnulib wrapping of functions when cross compiling. See
-	# http://wiki.osdev.org/Cross-Porting_Software#Gnulib
-	# https://gitlab.com/sortix/sortix/wikis/Gnulib
-	# https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/issues/76
-	local AVOID_GNULIB=""
-	AVOID_GNULIB+=" ac_cv_func_nl_langinfo=yes"
-	AVOID_GNULIB+=" ac_cv_func_calloc_0_nonnull=yes"
-	AVOID_GNULIB+=" ac_cv_func_chown_works=yes"
-	AVOID_GNULIB+=" ac_cv_func_getgroups_works=yes"
-	AVOID_GNULIB+=" ac_cv_func_malloc_0_nonnull=yes"
-	AVOID_GNULIB+=" ac_cv_func_realloc_0_nonnull=yes"
-	AVOID_GNULIB+=" am_cv_func_working_getline=yes"
-	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_dup2_works=yes"
-	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_fcntl_f_dupfd_cloexec=yes"
-	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_fcntl_f_dupfd_works=yes"
-	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_fnmatch_posix=yes"
-	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_getcwd_abort_bug=no"
-	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_getcwd_null=yes"
-	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_getcwd_path_max=yes"
-	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_getcwd_posix_signature=yes"
-	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_gettimeofday_clobber=no"
-	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_gettimeofday_posix_signature=yes"
-	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_link_works=yes"
-	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_lstat_dereferences_slashed_symlink=yes"
-	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_malloc_0_nonnull=yes"
-	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_memchr_works=yes"
-	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_mkdir_trailing_dot_works=yes"
-	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_mkdir_trailing_slash_works=yes"
-	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_mkfifo_works=yes"
-	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_mknod_works=yes"
-	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_realpath_works=yes"
-	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_select_detects_ebadf=yes"
-	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_snprintf_posix=yes"
-	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_snprintf_retval_c99=yes"
-	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_snprintf_truncation_c99=yes"
-	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_stat_dir_slash=yes"
-	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_stat_file_slash=yes"
-	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_strerror_0_works=yes"
-	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_symlink_works=yes"
-	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_tzset_clobber=no"
-	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_unlink_honors_slashes=yes"
-	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_unlink_honors_slashes=yes"
-	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_vsnprintf_posix=yes"
-	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_vsnprintf_zerosize_c99=yes"
-	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_wcwidth_works=yes"
-	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_working_getdelim=yes"
-	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_working_mkstemp=yes"
-	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_working_mktime=yes"
-	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_working_strerror=yes"
-	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_header_working_fcntl_h=yes"
-	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_C_locale_sans_EILSEQ=yes"
-
-	# NOTE: We do not want to quote AVOID_GNULIB as we want word expansion.
-	# shellcheck disable=SC2086
-	env $AVOID_GNULIB "$TERMUX_PKG_SRCDIR/configure" \
-		--disable-dependency-tracking \
-		--prefix=$TERMUX_PREFIX \
-		--libdir=$TERMUX_PREFIX/lib \
-		--disable-rpath --disable-rpath-hack \
-		$HOST_FLAG \
-		$TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS \
-		$DISABLE_NLS \
-		$ENABLE_SHARED \
-		$DISABLE_STATIC \
-		$LIBEXEC_FLAG \
-		$QUIET_BUILD
-}
+# Setup configure args and run $TERMUX_PKG_SRCDIR/configure. This function is called from termux_step_configure
+source scripts/build/configure/termux_step_configure_autotools.sh
 
 termux_step_configure_cmake() {
 	termux_setup_cmake
diff --git a/scripts/build/configure/termux_step_configure_autotools.sh b/scripts/build/configure/termux_step_configure_autotools.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..42232ea54e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/build/configure/termux_step_configure_autotools.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+termux_step_configure_autotools() {
+	if [ ! -e "$TERMUX_PKG_SRCDIR/configure" ]; then return; fi
+
+	local DISABLE_STATIC="--disable-static"
+	if [ "$TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS" != "${TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS/--enable-static/}" ]; then
+		# Do not --disable-static if package explicitly enables it (e.g. gdb needs enable-static to build)
+		DISABLE_STATIC=""
+	fi
+
+	local DISABLE_NLS="--disable-nls"
+	if [ "$TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS" != "${TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS/--enable-nls/}" ]; then
+		# Do not --disable-nls if package explicitly enables it (for gettext itself)
+		DISABLE_NLS=""
+	fi
+
+	local ENABLE_SHARED="--enable-shared"
+	if [ "$TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS" != "${TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS/--disable-shared/}" ]; then
+		ENABLE_SHARED=""
+	fi
+
+	local HOST_FLAG="--host=$TERMUX_HOST_PLATFORM"
+	if [ "$TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS" != "${TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS/--host=/}" ]; then
+		HOST_FLAG=""
+	fi
+
+	local LIBEXEC_FLAG="--libexecdir=$TERMUX_PREFIX/libexec"
+	if [ "$TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS" != "${TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS/--libexecdir=/}" ]; then
+		LIBEXEC_FLAG=""
+	fi
+
+	local QUIET_BUILD=
+	if [ $TERMUX_QUIET_BUILD = true ]; then
+		QUIET_BUILD="--enable-silent-rules --silent --quiet"
+	fi
+
+	# Some packages provides a $PKG-config script which some configure scripts pickup instead of pkg-config:
+	mkdir "$TERMUX_PKG_TMPDIR/config-scripts"
+	for f in $TERMUX_PREFIX/bin/*config; do
+		test -f "$f" && cp "$f" "$TERMUX_PKG_TMPDIR/config-scripts"
+	done
+	export PATH=$TERMUX_PKG_TMPDIR/config-scripts:$PATH
+
+	# Avoid gnulib wrapping of functions when cross compiling. See
+	# http://wiki.osdev.org/Cross-Porting_Software#Gnulib
+	# https://gitlab.com/sortix/sortix/wikis/Gnulib
+	# https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/issues/76
+	local AVOID_GNULIB=""
+	AVOID_GNULIB+=" ac_cv_func_nl_langinfo=yes"
+	AVOID_GNULIB+=" ac_cv_func_calloc_0_nonnull=yes"
+	AVOID_GNULIB+=" ac_cv_func_chown_works=yes"
+	AVOID_GNULIB+=" ac_cv_func_getgroups_works=yes"
+	AVOID_GNULIB+=" ac_cv_func_malloc_0_nonnull=yes"
+	AVOID_GNULIB+=" ac_cv_func_realloc_0_nonnull=yes"
+	AVOID_GNULIB+=" am_cv_func_working_getline=yes"
+	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_dup2_works=yes"
+	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_fcntl_f_dupfd_cloexec=yes"
+	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_fcntl_f_dupfd_works=yes"
+	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_fnmatch_posix=yes"
+	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_getcwd_abort_bug=no"
+	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_getcwd_null=yes"
+	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_getcwd_path_max=yes"
+	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_getcwd_posix_signature=yes"
+	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_gettimeofday_clobber=no"
+	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_gettimeofday_posix_signature=yes"
+	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_link_works=yes"
+	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_lstat_dereferences_slashed_symlink=yes"
+	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_malloc_0_nonnull=yes"
+	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_memchr_works=yes"
+	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_mkdir_trailing_dot_works=yes"
+	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_mkdir_trailing_slash_works=yes"
+	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_mkfifo_works=yes"
+	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_mknod_works=yes"
+	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_realpath_works=yes"
+	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_select_detects_ebadf=yes"
+	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_snprintf_posix=yes"
+	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_snprintf_retval_c99=yes"
+	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_snprintf_truncation_c99=yes"
+	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_stat_dir_slash=yes"
+	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_stat_file_slash=yes"
+	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_strerror_0_works=yes"
+	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_symlink_works=yes"
+	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_tzset_clobber=no"
+	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_unlink_honors_slashes=yes"
+	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_unlink_honors_slashes=yes"
+	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_vsnprintf_posix=yes"
+	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_vsnprintf_zerosize_c99=yes"
+	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_wcwidth_works=yes"
+	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_working_getdelim=yes"
+	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_working_mkstemp=yes"
+	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_working_mktime=yes"
+	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_func_working_strerror=yes"
+	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_header_working_fcntl_h=yes"
+	AVOID_GNULIB+=" gl_cv_C_locale_sans_EILSEQ=yes"
+
+	# NOTE: We do not want to quote AVOID_GNULIB as we want word expansion.
+	# shellcheck disable=SC2086
+	env $AVOID_GNULIB "$TERMUX_PKG_SRCDIR/configure" \
+		--disable-dependency-tracking \
+		--prefix=$TERMUX_PREFIX \
+		--libdir=$TERMUX_PREFIX/lib \
+		--disable-rpath --disable-rpath-hack \
+		$HOST_FLAG \
+		$TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS \
+		$DISABLE_NLS \
+		$ENABLE_SHARED \
+		$DISABLE_STATIC \
+		$LIBEXEC_FLAG \
+		$QUIET_BUILD
+}