diff --git a/SHA256SUMS.sources b/SHA256SUMS.sources
index 66817f0..1b72422 100644
--- a/SHA256SUMS.sources
+++ b/SHA256SUMS.sources
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 534e99b61b81e79327b6d08f1a3edb0755ac246e1249009b0e1bf5887b60d7a9  autoconf-2.52.tar.gz
+503cdc2b0992a4309545d17f462cb15f99bb57b7161dfc4082b2e7188f2bcc0f  automake-1.4-p6.tar.gz
 ba03d412998cc54bd0b0f2d6c32100967d3137098affdc2d32e6e7c11b163fe4  bash-2.05b.tar.gz
 7007fc89c216fbfaff5525359b02a7e5b612694df5168c74673f67055f015095  bison-3.4.1.tar.gz
 ab5a03176ee106d3f0fa90e381da478ddae405918153cca248e682cd0c4a2269  bzip2-1.0.8.tar.gz
diff --git a/rootfs.sh b/rootfs.sh
index 9cdc78e..b234d77 100755
--- a/rootfs.sh
+++ b/rootfs.sh
@@ -204,6 +204,9 @@ get_file https://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.6.2.tar.gz
 # autoconf 2.52
 get_file https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.52.tar.gz
 
+# automake 1.4-p6
+get_file https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.4-p6.tar.gz
+
 # General cleanup
 find tmp -name .git -exec rm -rf \;
 
diff --git a/sysa/automake-1.4-p6/checksums b/sysa/automake-1.4-p6/checksums
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/sysa/automake-1.4-p6/stage1.sh b/sysa/automake-1.4-p6/stage1.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..22fb22a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sysa/automake-1.4-p6/stage1.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Andrius Štikonas <andrius@stikonas.eu>
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+
+src_prepare() {
+    sed -i 's#m4/Makefile tests/Makefile##; s/Makefile //' configure.in
+
+    rm configure Makefile.in */Makefile.in
+    autoconf-2.52
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+    ./configure --prefix=/after
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+    :
+}
+
+src_install() {
+    install automake ${PREFIX}/bin/automake-1.4
+    mkdir -p ${PREFIX}/share/automake-1.4
+    cp -r *.am ${PREFIX}/share/automake-1.4/
+}
diff --git a/sysa/automake-1.4-p6/stage2.sh b/sysa/automake-1.4-p6/stage2.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..3963233
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sysa/automake-1.4-p6/stage2.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Andrius Štikonas <andrius@stikonas.eu>
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+
+src_prepare() {
+    rm configure Makefile.in */Makefile.in
+    autoconf-2.52
+    automake-1.4
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+    ./configure --prefix=/after
+}
+
+src_install() {
+    # cleanup old manual install
+    rm ${PREFIX}/bin/automake-1.4
+    rm -rf ${PREFIX}/share/automake-1.4
+
+    default_src_install
+}
diff --git a/sysa/run.sh b/sysa/run.sh
index ff71f13..4b1133b 100755
--- a/sysa/run.sh
+++ b/sysa/run.sh
@@ -70,4 +70,7 @@ populate_device_nodes
 
 build autoconf-2.52
 
+build automake-1.4-p6 stage1.sh
+build automake-1.4-p6 stage2.sh
+
 echo "Bootstrapping completed."