diff --git a/ipmitool.spec b/ipmitool.spec
index 9274259..987326d 100644
--- a/ipmitool.spec
+++ b/ipmitool.spec
@@ -86,6 +86,18 @@ done
 # --enable-file-security adds some security checks
 # --disable-intf-free disables FreeIPMI support - we don't want to depend on
 #   FreeIPMI libraries, FreeIPMI has its own ipmitoool-like utility.
+
+# begin: release auto-tools
+# Used to be needed by aarch64 support, now only cxoem patch makefiles are left.
+aclocal
+libtoolize --automake --copy
+autoheader
+automake --foreign --add-missing --copy
+aclocal
+autoconf
+automake --foreign
+# end: release auto-tools
+
 %configure --disable-dependency-tracking --enable-file-security --disable-intf-free
 make %{?_smp_mflags}