diff --git a/nbdkit.spec b/nbdkit.spec
index 56ceec7..6302323 100644
--- a/nbdkit.spec
+++ b/nbdkit.spec
@@ -34,6 +34,11 @@ Source1:        http://libguestfs.org/download/nbdkit/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz.
 Source2:       libguestfs.keyring
 %endif
 
+%global patches_touch_autotools 0
+%if 0%{patches_touch_autotools}
+BuildRequires: autoconf, automake, libtool
+%endif
+
 %if 0%{?rhel} == 7
 # On RHEL 7, nothing in the virt stack is shipped on aarch64 and
 # libguestfs was not shipped on POWER (fixed in 7.5).  We could in
@@ -430,6 +435,9 @@ tmphome="$(mktemp -d)"
 gpgv2 --homedir "$tmphome" --keyring %{SOURCE2} %{SOURCE1} %{SOURCE0}
 %endif
 %autosetup -p1
+%if 0%{patches_touch_autotools}
+autoreconf -i
+%endif
 
 %ifnarch %{complete_test_arches}
 # Simplify the test suite so it doesn't require qemu.