diff --git a/package/rene/ecore/ecore.conf b/package/rene/ecore/ecore.conf
index 38217c8f8..9dbd219e8 100644
--- a/package/rene/ecore/ecore.conf
+++ b/package/rene/ecore/ecore.conf
@@ -20,6 +20,12 @@
 # 
 # --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
 
-
 . $base/package/*/imlib2/e17.conf
 
+var_append confopt " " "--enable-ecore-x \
+--enable-ecore-evas --enable-ecore-evas-gl \
+--enable-ecore-job --enable-ecore-con --enable-ecore-ipc"
+
+# work around to always utilize other e17 headers and libs ...
+var_append CC_WRAPPER_APPEND " " "-I$includedir -L$libdir"
+
diff --git a/package/rene/evas/evas.conf b/package/rene/evas/evas.conf
index 5f9f7c9d6..b0f4a02f9 100644
--- a/package/rene/evas/evas.conf
+++ b/package/rene/evas/evas.conf
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 # do s.th. with (?)
 #--enable-cpu-p2-only
 
-confopt="$confopt --enable-software-x11 --enable-gl-x11 \
+var_append confopt " " "--enable-software-x11 --enable-gl-x11 \
 --enable-image-loader-png  --enable-image-loader-jpeg \
 --enable-image-loader-eet --enable-image-loader-edb \
 --enable-cpu-c \