diff --git a/Documentation/Developers/PKG-BUILD-VARS b/Documentation/Developers/PKG-BUILD-VARS
index ec144a231..bc4180ce2 100644
--- a/Documentation/Developers/PKG-BUILD-VARS
+++ b/Documentation/Developers/PKG-BUILD-VARS
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ patchopt ...... options passed to the patch program
 preconf ....... command to execute before running configure
 runconf ....... set to '0' if you want to skip running configure
 autogen ....... set to '1' if you want to run the autogen script
+automakever ... automake version prefix (e.g. "-1.7") for $autogen
 confopt ....... options for GNU autoconf './configure'
 extraconfopt .. options which should be appended to $confopt by set_confopt()
 configprefix .. variable declarations only for GNU autoconf './configure'
diff --git a/package/base/acl/acl.conf b/package/base/acl/acl.conf
index 1c4be66f5..c1f1c7670 100644
--- a/package/base/acl/acl.conf
+++ b/package/base/acl/acl.conf
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 # --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
 
 # see hotfixes in autoconf.patch
+automakever="-1.7"
 autogen=1
 
 # do not try to detect rpm
diff --git a/scripts/Build-Pkg b/scripts/Build-Pkg
index 8daa1731d..e6b899034 100755
--- a/scripts/Build-Pkg
+++ b/scripts/Build-Pkg
@@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ finish=""	; hook_add finish	5 'eval "$finish"'
 [ "$ROCKCFG_DO_CHECK" = 1 ] && hook_add inmake 6 'run_check'
 hook_add postflist 3 'postflist_static_lib'
 
-configprefix=""	; autogen=0
+configprefix="" ; autogen=0 ; automakever=""
 configscript="./configure" ; extraconfopt=""
 
 srcdir=auto ; srctar=auto
diff --git a/scripts/functions b/scripts/functions
index 2acd29172..3fd96e555 100644
--- a/scripts/functions
+++ b/scripts/functions
@@ -237,9 +237,10 @@ function eval_config_command() {
 			sh autogen.sh
 		else
 			echo "Running builtin autogen script."
-			libtoolize --force --automake ; aclocal
+			libtoolize --force --automake
+			aclocal$automakever
 			if grep AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE configure.[ia][nc]
-				then automake ; fi
+				then automake$automakever ; fi
 			autoconf
 		fi
 	fi