clisp-tip: make the build more reliable

Hydra shows it sometimes fails without autoconf: http://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixos/trunk-combined/nixpkgs.clisp-tip.x86_64-linux I can't say I understand why this happened. (cherry picked from commit 848423f) /cc #23253 and maintainers @7c6f434c, @tohl.
NixOS · Mar 12, 2017 · a3939d1 · a3939d1 · 7c6f434c · Mar 13, 2017
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commit a3939d1
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diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/clisp/hg.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/clisp/hg.nix
@@ -5,8 +5,7 @@
 # - full: contains base plus modules in withModules
 { stdenv, fetchhg, libsigsegv, gettext, ncurses, readline, libX11
 , libXau, libXt, pcre, zlib, libXpm, xproto, libXext, xextproto
-, libffi
-, libffcall
+, libffi, libffcall, automake
 , coreutils
 # build options
 , threadSupport ? (stdenv.isi686 || stdenv.isx86_64)
@@ -37,6 +36,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   ffcallAvailable = stdenv.isLinux && (libffcall != null);
 
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ automake ]; # sometimes fails otherwise
   buildInputs = [libsigsegv]
   ++ stdenv.lib.optional (gettext != null) gettext
   ++ stdenv.lib.optional (ncurses != null) ncurses