diff --git a/app-arch/sharutils/sharutils-4.6.3-downstream.patch b/app-arch/sharutils/sharutils-4.6.3-downstream.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b5bb13196
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-arch/sharutils/sharutils-4.6.3-downstream.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+diff -Naur sharutils-4.6.3-original/configure.ac sharutils-4.6.3/configure.ac
+--- sharutils-4.6.3-original/configure.ac	2009-04-07 00:40:07.000000000 -0400
++++ sharutils-4.6.3/configure.ac	2009-04-07 00:41:01.000000000 -0400
+@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
+ AC_INIT([sharutils], sharutils_version, sharutils_eaddr)
+ AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/shar.c])
+ AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])
++AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
+ 
+ AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.9 gnits dist-bzip2])
+ AC_SUBST(DIST_ALPHA)
+@@ -20,7 +21,7 @@
+ AC_PROG_CC
+ AC_PROG_INSTALL
+ AC_PROG_MAKE_SET
+-AC_PROG_RANLIB
++LT_INIT
+ 
+ dnl FIXME: Check that it is GNU diff indeed.
+ # Carefully avoid gdiff for X as found on SGI systems.