diff --git a/packages/devel/autoconf/patches/autoconf-0100-backport-runstatedir.patch b/packages/devel/autoconf/patches/autoconf-0100-backport-runstatedir.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..37a03843aa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/devel/autoconf/patches/autoconf-0100-backport-runstatedir.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+From 8e269b13bc042bc2504d5860e0d453b4aac32909 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Matthias Reichl <hias@horus.com>
+Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2018 13:45:26 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] backport AC_INIT: add --runstatedir option to configure
+
+Backport of a197431414088a417b407b9b20583b2e8f7363bd.
+Changes to NEWS and doc/autoconf.tex have been dropped.
+---
+ lib/autoconf/general.m4 | 13 ++++++++++++-
+ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/lib/autoconf/general.m4 b/lib/autoconf/general.m4
+index adfae1db..1437c0ca 100644
+--- a/lib/autoconf/general.m4
++++ b/lib/autoconf/general.m4
+@@ -586,6 +586,7 @@ AC_SUBST([datadir],        ['${datarootdir}'])dnl
+ AC_SUBST([sysconfdir],     ['${prefix}/etc'])dnl
+ AC_SUBST([sharedstatedir], ['${prefix}/com'])dnl
+ AC_SUBST([localstatedir],  ['${prefix}/var'])dnl
++AC_SUBST([runstatedir],    ['${localstatedir}/run'])dnl
+ AC_SUBST([includedir],     ['${prefix}/include'])dnl
+ AC_SUBST([oldincludedir],  ['/usr/include'])dnl
+ AC_SUBST([docdir],         [m4_ifset([AC_PACKAGE_TARNAME],
+@@ -812,6 +813,15 @@ do
+   | -silent | --silent | --silen | --sile | --sil)
+     silent=yes ;;
+ 
++  -runstatedir | --runstatedir | --runstatedi | --runstated \
++  | --runstate | --runstat | --runsta | --runst | --runs \
++  | --run | --ru | --r)
++    ac_prev=runstatedir ;;
++  -runstatedir=* | --runstatedir=* | --runstatedi=* | --runstated=* \
++  | --runstate=* | --runstat=* | --runsta=* | --runst=* | --runs=* \
++  | --run=* | --ru=* | --r=*)
++    runstatedir=$ac_optarg ;;
++
+   -sbindir | --sbindir | --sbindi | --sbind | --sbin | --sbi | --sb)
+     ac_prev=sbindir ;;
+   -sbindir=* | --sbindir=* | --sbindi=* | --sbind=* | --sbin=* \
+@@ -921,7 +931,7 @@ fi
+ for ac_var in	exec_prefix prefix bindir sbindir libexecdir datarootdir \
+ 		datadir sysconfdir sharedstatedir localstatedir includedir \
+ 		oldincludedir docdir infodir htmldir dvidir pdfdir psdir \
+-		libdir localedir mandir
++		libdir localedir mandir runstatedir
+ do
+   eval ac_val=\$$ac_var
+   # Remove trailing slashes.
+@@ -1058,6 +1068,7 @@ Fine tuning of the installation directories:
+   --sysconfdir=DIR        read-only single-machine data [PREFIX/etc]
+   --sharedstatedir=DIR    modifiable architecture-independent data [PREFIX/com]
+   --localstatedir=DIR     modifiable single-machine data [PREFIX/var]
++  --runstatedir=DIR       modifiable per-process data [LOCALSTATEDIR/run]
+   --libdir=DIR            object code libraries [EPREFIX/lib]
+   --includedir=DIR        C header files [PREFIX/include]
+   --oldincludedir=DIR     C header files for non-gcc [/usr/include]
+-- 
+2.11.0
+