diff --git a/automake.spec b/automake.spec
index 50386804c8252422a04828825ab5feaf9fd98b19..57e90941c80a665664a26bda916d9fd7797ce35b 100644
--- a/automake.spec
+++ b/automake.spec
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 Name:           automake
 Version:        1.16.2
-Release:        1
+Release:        2
 Summary:        A tool for automatically generating Makefile.in files
 License:        GPLv2+ and GFDL and Public Domain and MIT
 URL:            http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ Source0:        http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/%{name}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.xz
 Source1:        http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git/plain/config.sub
 Source2:        http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git/plain/config.guess
 
+Patch1:         tests-require-etags-for-tags-lisp-space-test.patch
+
 BuildArch:      noarch
 
 #disable am-prog-cc-c-o ccnoco ccnoco-lib test
@@ -73,6 +75,9 @@ fi
 %{_mandir}/man1/*
 
 %changelog
+* Thu May 27 2021 yangzhuangzhuang <yangzhuangzhuang1@huawei.com> - 1.16.2-2
+- Fix test failed
+
 * Thu Jul 16 2020 wangchen <wangchen137@huawei.com> - 1.16.2-1
 - Update to 1.16.2
 
diff --git a/tests-require-etags-for-tags-lisp-space-test.patch b/tests-require-etags-for-tags-lisp-space-test.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..70ca8f783c3eb377eaf31bbe78aba0da774b98ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests-require-etags-for-tags-lisp-space-test.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From 77d39959511295f5a30332d5d03f0a6956bd9460 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
+Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 18:30:18 -0700
+Subject: [PATCH] tests: require etags for tags-lisp-space test.
+
+* t/tags-lisp-space.sh (required): set to etags.
+---
+ t/tags-lisp-space.sh | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/t/tags-lisp-space.sh b/t/tags-lisp-space.sh
+index d0a940ba3..44312b0b7 100755
+--- a/t/tags-lisp-space.sh
++++ b/t/tags-lisp-space.sh
+@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
+ # if there are CONFIG_HEADERS.
+ # See automake bug#38139.
+ 
+-required=''
++required=etags
+ . test-init.sh
+ 
+ # some AC_CONFIG_FILES header is needed to trigger the bug.