diff --git a/gperftools.changes b/gperftools.changes
index 3094ce6..1409e59 100644
--- a/gperftools.changes
+++ b/gperftools.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Aug 12 15:49:12 UTC 2013 - cgardner@suse.com
+
+- Fixed configure.ac to use older version of autoconf, so that 
+  gperftools can build for SLE10.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Jul 30 17:44:01 UTC 2013 - cgardner@suse.com
 
diff --git a/gperftools.spec b/gperftools.spec
index ce251a9..6c6cf8f 100644
--- a/gperftools.spec
+++ b/gperftools.spec
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ Patch12:        %{name}_fix_unassigned_malloc_in_unittest.patch
 Patch14:        %{name}_gcc46.patch
 #Patch15:        %{name}-glibc216.patch
 #Patch16:        spinlock-rand.patch
+Patch17:        %{name}_use_older_autoconf.diff
 BuildRequires:  autoconf
 BuildRequires:  automake
 BuildRequires:  gcc-c++
@@ -69,6 +70,7 @@ files for developing applications that use the gperftools package.
 %patch14 -p1
 #patch15 -p1
 #patch16 -p1
+%patch17 -p1
 
 %build
 autoreconf -fi
diff --git a/gperftools_use_older_autoconf.diff b/gperftools_use_older_autoconf.diff
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..588f2c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gperftools_use_older_autoconf.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+Index: gperftools-2.1/configure.ac
+===================================================================
+--- gperftools-2.1.orig/configure.ac
++++ gperftools-2.1/configure.ac
+@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
+ ## In general, the safest way to proceed is to run ./autogen.sh
+ 
+ # make sure we're interpreted by some minimal autoconf
+-AC_PREREQ([2.68])
++AC_PREREQ([2.59])
+ 
+ AC_INIT([gperftools],[2.1],[google-perftools@googlegroups.com])
+ # Update this value for every release!  (A:B:C will map to foo.so.(A-C).C.B)