diff --git a/tests/manual/autotoolsprojectmanager/Makefile.am b/tests/manual/autotoolsprojectmanager/Makefile.am
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..70dce9f4fe9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/manual/autotoolsprojectmanager/Makefile.am
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4
+
+lib_LTLIBRARIES = libfoo.la
+libfoo_la_SOURCES = foo.c
+
+bin_PROGRAMS = main
+main_SOURCES = main.c
+main_LDADD = libfoo.la
diff --git a/tests/manual/autotoolsprojectmanager/autogen.sh b/tests/manual/autotoolsprojectmanager/autogen.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..1da0016407e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/manual/autotoolsprojectmanager/autogen.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+libtoolize
+aclocal
+automake --add-missing
+autoconf
+./configure
diff --git a/tests/manual/autotoolsprojectmanager/configure.ac b/tests/manual/autotoolsprojectmanager/configure.ac
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a6fafd99f15
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/manual/autotoolsprojectmanager/configure.ac
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+AC_INIT([amtest], [1.0])
+AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([foo.c])
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign])
+AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS([m4])
+AC_PROG_CC
+LT_INIT
+AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile])
+AC_OUTPUT
diff --git a/tests/manual/autotoolsprojectmanager/foo.c b/tests/manual/autotoolsprojectmanager/foo.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b388c2617d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/manual/autotoolsprojectmanager/foo.c
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+int foo(void)
+{
+    puts("Hi!");
+    return 43;
+}
diff --git a/tests/manual/autotoolsprojectmanager/main.c b/tests/manual/autotoolsprojectmanager/main.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e3d6aeae300
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/manual/autotoolsprojectmanager/main.c
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+
+int foo(void);
+
+int main()
+{
+    return foo();
+}