diff -Nru xchat-2.8.8/debian/changelog xchat-2.8.8/debian/changelog
--- xchat-2.8.8/debian/changelog	2013-10-22 09:33:07.000000000 +0000
+++ xchat-2.8.8/debian/changelog	2013-12-26 22:25:10.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,16 @@
+xchat (2.8.8-7.1ubuntu5) trusty; urgency=medium
+
+  * Update config.guess/config.sub with dh_atotools.
+
+ -- Dimitri John Ledkov <xnox@ubuntu.com>  Thu, 26 Dec 2013 22:25:10 +0000
+
+xchat (2.8.8-7.1ubuntu4) trusty; urgency=medium
+
+  * Use dh-autoreconf to update libtool for ppc64el port.
+  * Specify foreign automake option.
+
+ -- Dimitri John Ledkov <xnox@ubuntu.com>  Thu, 26 Dec 2013 21:47:13 +0000
+
 xchat (2.8.8-7.1ubuntu3) trusty; urgency=low
 
   * Rebuild for Perl 5.18.
diff -Nru xchat-2.8.8/debian/control xchat-2.8.8/debian/control
--- xchat-2.8.8/debian/control	2013-07-30 12:57:26.000000000 +0000
+++ xchat-2.8.8/debian/control	2013-12-26 21:49:26.000000000 +0000
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 XSBC-Original-Maintainer: Davide Puricelli (evo) <evo@debian.org>
 Uploaders: Bart Martens <bartm@debian.org>
 Standards-Version: 3.9.3
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), bison, libssl-dev, libglib2.0-dev, libgtk2.0-dev (>= 2.10.0), libperl-dev, gettext (>= 0.10.37), libtool, zlib1g-dev, perl (>= 5.8), python-dev, tcl-dev, autotools-dev, libdbus-glib-1-dev, libgtkspell-dev, gconf2, dpkg-dev (>= 1.13.19), libsexy-dev, chrpath, imagemagick
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), bison, libssl-dev, libglib2.0-dev, libgtk2.0-dev (>= 2.10.0), libperl-dev, gettext (>= 0.10.37), libtool, zlib1g-dev, perl (>= 5.8), python-dev, tcl-dev, autotools-dev, dh-autoreconf, libdbus-glib-1-dev, libgtkspell-dev, gconf2, dpkg-dev (>= 1.13.19), libsexy-dev, chrpath, imagemagick
 Homepage: http://www.xchat.org/
 
 Package: xchat
diff -Nru xchat-2.8.8/debian/patches/automake-foreign.patch xchat-2.8.8/debian/patches/automake-foreign.patch
--- xchat-2.8.8/debian/patches/automake-foreign.patch	1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+++ xchat-2.8.8/debian/patches/automake-foreign.patch	2013-12-26 21:53:51.000000000 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+Description: Specify foreign automake option.
+Author: Dimitri John Ledkov <xnox@ubuntu.com>
+
+--- xchat-2.8.8.orig/configure.in
++++ xchat-2.8.8/configure.in
+@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ AC_COPYRIGHT([Copyright (C) 1998-2010 Pe
+ AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])
+ AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([configure.in])
+ 
+-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.9 dist-bzip2 subdir-objects no-define])
++AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.9 dist-bzip2 subdir-objects no-define foreign])
+ 
+ AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
+ AC_PROG_CC
diff -Nru xchat-2.8.8/debian/patches/series xchat-2.8.8/debian/patches/series
--- xchat-2.8.8/debian/patches/series	2013-07-30 12:55:43.000000000 +0000
+++ xchat-2.8.8/debian/patches/series	2013-12-26 21:53:42.000000000 +0000
@@ -33,3 +33,4 @@
 66_load_libnotify4.patch
 power-user-settings.patch
 fix-ftbfs-missing-gmodule.patch
+automake-foreign.patch
diff -Nru xchat-2.8.8/debian/rules xchat-2.8.8/debian/rules
--- xchat-2.8.8/debian/rules	2013-07-30 12:55:43.000000000 +0000
+++ xchat-2.8.8/debian/rules	2013-12-26 22:24:45.000000000 +0000
@@ -13,10 +13,8 @@
 
 configure: configure-stamp
 configure-stamp:
-	[ -f config.sub.d-r-orig ] || cp -p config.sub config.sub.d-r-orig
-	[ -f config.guess.d-r-orig ] || cp -p config.guess config.guess.d-r-orig
-	cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.sub .
-	cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.guess .
+	dh_autotools-dev_updateconfig
+	dh_autoreconf ./autogen.sh
 	[ -f xchat.xpm ] || convert -resize 32x32 xchat.png xchat.xpm
 	CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)" ./configure --prefix=/usr --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --enable-python --enable-ipv6  \
 	--disable-mmx --enable-openssl --enable-tcl=/usr/lib \
@@ -37,8 +35,8 @@
 	dh_testdir
 	dh_testroot
 	[ ! -f Makefile ] || $(MAKE) distclean
-	[ ! -f config.sub.d-r-orig ] || mv config.sub.d-r-orig config.sub
-	[ ! -f config.guess.d-r-orig ] || mv config.guess.d-r-orig config.guess
+	dh_autoreconf_clean
+	dh_autotools-dev_restoreconfig
 	rm -f xchat.xpm
 	rm -f config.log
 	rm -f xchat xchat-gnome
@@ -48,7 +46,7 @@
 	rm -f src/common/dbus/org.xchat.service.service
 	rm -f libtool
 	dh_clean
-	
+
 install: install-stamp
 install-stamp: build
 	dh_testdir
@@ -102,5 +100,5 @@
 	dh_md5sums -pxchat
 	dh_builddeb -pxchat
 binary: binary-indep binary-arch
-	
+
 .PHONY: build clean clean-stamp binary-indep binary-arch binary install