diff --git a/automake-1.16-pep3147-tweak-fix.patch b/automake-1.16-pep3147-tweak-fix.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ba1cf43
--- /dev/null
+++ b/automake-1.16-pep3147-tweak-fix.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+From a348d830659fffd2cfc42994524783b07e69b4b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org>
+Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2018 23:41:42 +0200
+Subject: python: Don't use '\n' in sed substitution
+
+This change fixes automake bug#31222.
+
+On macOS, 'sed' interprets '\n' in the substitution text as the letter 'n'
+instead of as a newline.
+
+* lib/am/python.am [?FIRST?] (am__pep3147_tweak): Use a space instead of '\n'.
+---
+ lib/am/python.am | 2 +-
+ 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/lib/am/python.am b/lib/am/python.am
+index 21e6f84..c855cdd 100644
+--- a/lib/am/python.am
++++ b/lib/am/python.am
+@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ endif %?INSTALL%
+ if %?INSTALL%
+ 
+ ?FIRST?am__pep3147_tweak = \
+-?FIRST?  sed -e 's|\.py$$||' -e 's|[^/]*$$|&.*.pyc\n&.*.pyo|'
++?FIRST?  sed -e 's|\.py$$||' -e 's|[^/]*$$|&.*.pyc &.*.pyo|'
+ 
+ .PHONY uninstall-am: uninstall-%DIR%PYTHON
+ uninstall-%DIR%PYTHON:
+-- 
+cgit v1.0-41-gc330
+
diff --git a/automake.spec b/automake.spec
index 7883698..961365f 100644
--- a/automake.spec
+++ b/automake.spec
@@ -28,6 +28,11 @@ Source3:    http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git/plain/config.guess
 Patch0:     automake-1.15-disable-vala-tests.patch
 %endif
 
+# BZ#1716384
+# automake bug#31222 - Don't use '\n' in sed substitution
+# http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/commit/?id=a348d830659fffd2cfc42994524783b07e69b4b5
+Patch1:     automake-1.16-pep3147-tweak-fix.patch
+
 URL:        http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/
 Requires:   autoconf >= 2.65
 
@@ -136,8 +141,8 @@ make -k %{?_smp_mflags} check %{?TESTS_FLAGS: TESTS="%{TESTS_FLAGS}"} \
 
 
 %changelog
-* Mon May 13 2019 Jakub Janco <jjanco@redhat.com> - 1.16.1-10
-- do not mangle shebang in files which are part of bootstraped project
+* Tue Jun 04 2019 Patrik Novotný <panovotn@redhat.com> - 1.16.1-10
+- Upstream patch fixing automake bug#31222
 
 * Thu Jan 31 2019 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.16.1-9
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_30_Mass_Rebuild