diff --git a/0001-build-add-missing-AM_CPPFLAGS-to-examples.patch b/0001-build-add-missing-AM_CPPFLAGS-to-examples.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5319ec2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/0001-build-add-missing-AM_CPPFLAGS-to-examples.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+From 6b46cd26f9503ae50e9741747092a72d2fc35ec3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
+Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2022 05:44:57 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] build: add missing AM_CPPFLAGS to examples/
+
+examples$ make V=1
+depbase=`echo nft-buffer.o | sed 's|[^/]*$|.deps/&|;s|\.o$||'`;\
+gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I..     -g -O2 -MT nft-buffer.o -MD -MP -MF $depbase.Tpo -c -o nft-buffer.o nft-buffer.c &&\
+mv -f $depbase.Tpo $depbase.Po
+nft-buffer.c:3:10: fatal error: nftables/libnftables.h: No such file or directory
+
+Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
+---
+ examples/Makefile.am | 1 +
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
+
+diff --git a/examples/Makefile.am b/examples/Makefile.am
+index c972170d..d7234ce4 100644
+--- a/examples/Makefile.am
++++ b/examples/Makefile.am
+@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
++AM_CPPFLAGS = -I$(top_srcdir)/include
+ noinst_PROGRAMS	= nft-buffer		\
+ 		  nft-json-file
+ 
+-- 
+2.35.1
+
diff --git a/nftables.changes b/nftables.changes
index 4ab83f9..dee7af9 100644
--- a/nftables.changes
+++ b/nftables.changes
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ Tue Feb 22 04:39:01 UTC 2022 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
   * Support for tcp fastopen, md5sig and mptcp options.
   * MP-TCP subtype matching support.
   * JSON support for flowtables.
+- Add 0001-build-add-missing-AM_CPPFLAGS-to-examples.patch
 
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Nov 18 22:15:03 UTC 2021 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
diff --git a/nftables.spec b/nftables.spec
index ae1b1fd..1478b43 100644
--- a/nftables.spec
+++ b/nftables.spec
@@ -28,14 +28,16 @@ URL:            https://netfilter.org/projects/nftables/
 Source:         http://ftp.netfilter.org/pub/%name/%name-%version.tar.bz2
 Source2:        http://ftp.netfilter.org/pub/%name/%name-%version.tar.bz2.sig
 Source3:        %name.keyring
+Patch1:         0001-build-add-missing-AM_CPPFLAGS-to-examples.patch
 BuildRequires:  asciidoc
 BuildRequires:  bison
 BuildRequires:  flex
 BuildRequires:  gmp-devel
+BuildRequires:  libtool
 BuildRequires:  pkg-config >= 0.21
 BuildRequires:  python3-base
-BuildRequires:  readline-devel
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(jansson)
+BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(libedit)
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(libmnl) >= 1.0.4
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(libnftnl) >= 1.2.1
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(xtables) >= 1.6.1
@@ -81,6 +83,7 @@ A Python module for nftables.
 %autosetup -p1
 
 %build
+autoreconf -fi
 mkdir bin
 ln -s "%_bindir/docbook-to-man" bin/docbook2x-man
 export PATH="$PATH:$PWD/bin"