diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/automake/automake.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/automake/automake.inc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a1debd8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/automake/automake.inc
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+SUMMARY = "A GNU tool for automatically generating Makefiles"
+DESCRIPTION = "Automake is a tool for automatically generating `Makefile.in' files compliant with the GNU Coding \
+Standards. Automake requires the use of Autoconf."
+LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/"
+SECTION = "devel"
+
+SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/automake/automake-${PV}.tar.gz"
+
+inherit autotools texinfo
+
+do_configure() {
+	oe_runconf
+}
+
+export AUTOMAKE = "${@bb.utils.which('automake', d.getVar('PATH', True))}"
+
+FILES_${PN} += "${datadir}/automake* ${datadir}/aclocal*"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/automake/automake/buildtest.patch b/meta/recipes-devtools/automake/automake/buildtest.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1dd5337
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/automake/automake/buildtest.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+Split "check-TESTS" into a buildtest and runtest target, so that they can
+be run separately.
+
+Signed-off-by: Björn Stenberg <bjst@enea.com>
+Upstream-Status: Pending
+
+--- a/lib/am/check.am	2012-11-14 13:46:16.335475995 +0100
++++ b/lib/am/check.am	2012-08-13 18:40:12.000000000 +0200
+@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
+ am__tty_colors = $(am__tty_colors_dummy)
+ endif !%?COLOR%
+
+-.PHONY: check-TESTS
++.PHONY: check-TESTS buildtest-TESTS runtest-TESTS
+
+ if %?PARALLEL_TESTS%
+
+@@ -465,7 +465,14 @@
+
+ else !%?PARALLEL_TESTS%
+
+-check-TESTS: $(TESTS)
++AM_RECURSIVE_TARGETS += buildtest runtest
++
++buildtest-TESTS: $(TESTS)
++
++check-TESTS: buildtest-TESTS
++	$(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) runtest-TESTS
++
++runtest-TESTS:
+	@failed=0; all=0; xfail=0; xpass=0; skip=0; \
+	srcdir=$(srcdir); export srcdir; \
+ ## Make sure Solaris VPATH-expands all members of this list, even
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/automake/automake/py-compile-compile-only-optimized-byte-code.patch b/meta/recipes-devtools/automake/automake/py-compile-compile-only-optimized-byte-code.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f8334a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/automake/automake/py-compile-compile-only-optimized-byte-code.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+Upstream-Status: Inappropriate [embedded specific]
+
+* OE-Core's python creates the same binary output
+  for both pyc and pyo, so disable the creation of
+  pyc files by automake.
+
+Signed-off-by: Andreas Oberritter <obi@opendreambox.org>
+
+Updated for automake-1.12.6
+
+Signed-off-by: Marko Lindqvist <cazfi74@gmail.com>
+
+diff -Nurd automake-1.12.6/lib/py-compile automake-1.12.6/lib/py-compile
+--- automake-1.12.6/lib/py-compile	2012-12-13 21:57:31.000000000 +0200
++++ automake-1.12.6/lib/py-compile	2012-12-27 19:34:01.426015140 +0200
+@@ -115,26 +115,6 @@
+     filetrans="filepath = os.path.normpath('$destdir' + os.sep + path)"
+ fi
+ 
+-$PYTHON -c "
+-import sys, os, py_compile, imp
+-
+-files = '''$files'''
+-
+-sys.stdout.write('Byte-compiling python modules...\n')
+-for file in files.split():
+-    $pathtrans
+-    $filetrans
+-    if not os.path.exists(filepath) or not (len(filepath) >= 3
+-                                            and filepath[-3:] == '.py'):
+-	    continue
+-    sys.stdout.write(file)
+-    sys.stdout.flush()
+-    if hasattr(imp, 'get_tag'):
+-        py_compile.compile(filepath, imp.cache_from_source(filepath), path)
+-    else:
+-        py_compile.compile(filepath, filepath + 'c', path)
+-sys.stdout.write('\n')" || exit $?
+-
+ # this will fail for python < 1.5, but that doesn't matter ...
+ $PYTHON -O -c "
+ import sys, os, py_compile, imp
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/automake/automake/python-libdir.patch b/meta/recipes-devtools/automake/automake/python-libdir.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..47541bd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/automake/automake/python-libdir.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+Upstream-Status: Inappropriate [embedded specific]
+
+Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
+
+Updated for automake-1.12.6
+
+Signed-off-by: Marko Lindqvist <cazfi74@gmail.com>
+
+diff -Nurd automake-1.12.6/m4/python.m4 automake-1.12.6/m4/python.m4
+--- automake-1.12.6/m4/python.m4	2012-12-13 22:02:25.000000000 +0200
++++ automake-1.12.6/m4/python.m4	2012-12-27 17:40:26.558164660 +0200
+@@ -91,12 +91,13 @@
+     [am_cv_python_version=`$PYTHON -c "import sys; sys.stdout.write(sys.version[[:3]])"`])
+   AC_SUBST([PYTHON_VERSION], [$am_cv_python_version])
+ 
+-  dnl Use the values of $prefix and $exec_prefix for the corresponding
+-  dnl values of PYTHON_PREFIX and PYTHON_EXEC_PREFIX.  These are made
++  dnl Use the values of $prefix, $libdir and $exec_prefix for the corresponding
++  dnl values of PYTHON_PREFIX PYTHON_LIB_PREFIX, and PYTHON_EXEC_PREFIX.  These are made
+   dnl distinct variables so they can be overridden if need be.  However,
+   dnl general consensus is that you shouldn't need this ability.
+ 
+   AC_SUBST([PYTHON_PREFIX], ['${prefix}'])
++  AC_SUBST([PYTHON_LIB_PREFIX], ['${libdir}'])
+   AC_SUBST([PYTHON_EXEC_PREFIX], ['${exec_prefix}'])
+ 
+   dnl At times (like when building shared libraries) you may want
+@@ -148,7 +149,8 @@
+ else:
+     from distutils import sysconfig
+     sitedir = sysconfig.get_python_lib(0, 0, prefix='$am_py_prefix')
+-sys.stdout.write(sitedir)"`
++sys.stdout.write(sitedir)" ||
++     echo "$PYTHON_LIB_PREFIX/python$PYTHON_VERSION/site-packages"`
+      case $am_cv_python_pythondir in
+      $am_py_prefix*)
+        am__strip_prefix=`echo "$am_py_prefix" | sed 's|.|.|g'`
+@@ -158,7 +160,7 @@
+        case $am_py_prefix in
+          /usr|/System*) ;;
+          *)
+-	  am_cv_python_pythondir=$PYTHON_PREFIX/lib/python$PYTHON_VERSION/site-packages
++	  am_cv_python_pythondir=$PYTHON_LIB_PREFIX/python$PYTHON_VERSION/site-packages
+ 	  ;;
+        esac
+        ;;
+@@ -190,7 +192,8 @@
+ else:
+     from distutils import sysconfig
+     sitedir = sysconfig.get_python_lib(1, 0, prefix='$am_py_prefix')
+-sys.stdout.write(sitedir)"`
++sys.stdout.write(sitedir)" ||
++     echo "$PYTHON_LIB_PREFIX/python$PYTHON_VERSION/site-packages"`
+      case $am_cv_python_pyexecdir in
+      $am_py_exec_prefix*)
+        am__strip_prefix=`echo "$am_py_exec_prefix" | sed 's|.|.|g'`
+@@ -200,7 +203,7 @@
+        case $am_py_exec_prefix in
+          /usr|/System*) ;;
+          *)
+-	   am_cv_python_pyexecdir=$PYTHON_EXEC_PREFIX/lib/python$PYTHON_VERSION/site-packages
++	   am_cv_python_pyexecdir=$PYTHON_LIB_PREFIX/python$PYTHON_VERSION/site-packages
+ 	   ;;
+        esac
+        ;;
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/automake/automake_1.15.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/automake/automake_1.15.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c33dc22
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/automake/automake_1.15.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+require automake.inc
+LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
+DEPENDS_class-native = "autoconf-native"
+
+NAMEVER = "${@oe.utils.trim_version("${PV}", 2)}"
+
+RDEPENDS_${PN} += "\
+    autoconf \
+    perl \
+    perl-module-bytes \
+    perl-module-data-dumper \
+    perl-module-strict \
+    perl-module-text-parsewords \
+    perl-module-thread-queue \
+    perl-module-threads \
+    perl-module-vars "
+
+RDEPENDS_${PN}_class-native = "autoconf-native perl-native-runtime"
+
+SRC_URI += " file://python-libdir.patch \
+            file://py-compile-compile-only-optimized-byte-code.patch \
+            file://buildtest.patch"
+
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "716946a105ca228ab545fc37a70df3a3"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "7946e945a96e28152ba5a6beb0625ca715c6e32ac55f2e353ef54def0c8ed924"
+
+CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS += "ac_cv_path_PERL=${USRBINPATH}/perl"
+
+do_install_append () {
+    install -d ${D}${datadir}
+}
+
+BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"