diff --git a/SHA256SUMS.sources b/SHA256SUMS.sources
index 44b5cc5..66817f0 100644
--- a/SHA256SUMS.sources
+++ b/SHA256SUMS.sources
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+534e99b61b81e79327b6d08f1a3edb0755ac246e1249009b0e1bf5887b60d7a9  autoconf-2.52.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/parts.rst b/parts.rst
index 6fcd015..b8d1d38 100644
--- a/parts.rst
+++ b/parts.rst
@@ -352,3 +352,12 @@ perl 5.6.2
 ==========
 
 Even more perl. 5.6.2 is the last version buildable with 5.004.
+
+autoconf 2.52
+==============
+
+GNU Autoconf is a tool for producing ``configure`` scripts for building, installing and
+packaging software on computer systems where a Bourne shell is available.
+
+At this stage we still do not have a working autotools system, so we manually install
+``autoconf`` script and replace a few placeholder variables with ``sed``.
diff --git a/rootfs.sh b/rootfs.sh
index cd929e4..9cdc78e 100755
--- a/rootfs.sh
+++ b/rootfs.sh
@@ -201,6 +201,9 @@ get_file https://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl5.005_03.tar.gz
 # perl 5.6.2
 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
+
 # General cleanup
 find tmp -name .git -exec rm -rf \;
 
diff --git a/sysa/autoconf-2.52/autoconf-2.52.sh b/sysa/autoconf-2.52/autoconf-2.52.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..0708858
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sysa/autoconf-2.52/autoconf-2.52.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Andrius Štikonas <andrius@stikonas.eu>
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+
+src_compile() {
+    cp autoconf.in autoconf
+    sed -i "s# @SHELL@#/bin/sh#" autoconf
+    sed -i 's/@M4@/m4/' autoconf
+    sed -i 's/@AWK@/awk/' autoconf
+    sed -i 's/@PACKAGE_NAME@/Autoconf/' autoconf
+    sed -i 's/@VERSION@/2.52/' autoconf
+    sed -i "s#@datadir@#${PREFIX}/share/autoconf-2.52#" autoconf
+    chmod +x autoconf
+
+    m4 autoconf.m4 --freeze-state=autoconf.m4f
+}
+
+src_install() {
+    install autoconf ${PREFIX}/bin/autoconf-2.52
+    mkdir -p ${PREFIX}/share/autoconf-2.52
+    cp -r *.m4* ${PREFIX}/share/autoconf-2.52/
+}
diff --git a/sysa/autoconf-2.52/checksums b/sysa/autoconf-2.52/checksums
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/sysa/run.sh b/sysa/run.sh
index ea0e495..ff71f13 100755
--- a/sysa/run.sh
+++ b/sysa/run.sh
@@ -68,4 +68,6 @@ build perl-5.6.2
 
 populate_device_nodes
 
+build autoconf-2.52
+
 echo "Bootstrapping completed."