diff --git a/libpipeline.changes b/libpipeline.changes
index a66b966..5b5d58d 100644
--- a/libpipeline.changes
+++ b/libpipeline.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Dec 17 16:00:32 UTC 2021 - Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
+
+- Use autoconf 
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Dec  6 08:07:08 UTC 2021 - Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/libpipeline.spec b/libpipeline.spec
index 1f47d02..c1f9586 100644
--- a/libpipeline.spec
+++ b/libpipeline.spec
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ License:        GPL-3.0-or-later
 Group:          System/Libraries
 URL:            https://www.nongnu.org/libpipeline/
 Source0:        https://gitlab.com/cjwatson/%{name}/-/archive/%{version}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
+BuildRequires:  autoconf
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig
 
 %description
@@ -62,6 +63,7 @@ such as fork(2) and execve(2).
 %setup -q
 
 %build
+autoconf --force
 export CFLAGS="%{optflags} $(getconf LFS_CFLAGS)"
 %configure \
   --enable-shared \