diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/zile/zile_2.4.15.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/zile/zile_2.4.15.bb
deleted file mode 100644
index d7973ab861..0000000000
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/zile/zile_2.4.15.bb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-SUMMARY = "Zile is lossy Emacs"
-HOMEPAGE = "http://zile.sourceforge.net/"
-DEPENDS = "ncurses bdwgc"
-
-LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=1ebbd3e34237af26da5dc08a4e440464"
-
-SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/zile/${BP}.tar.gz \
-           file://remove-help2man.patch \
-"
-
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "39c300a34f78c37ba67793cf74685935a15568e14237a3a66fda8fcf40e3035e"
-
-inherit autotools pkgconfig
-
-do_install:append() {
-    rm -rf ${D}${libdir}/charset.alias
-    rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty ${D}${libdir} || true
-}
-
-PACKAGECONFIG ??= ""
-PACKAGECONFIG:append = " ${@bb.utils.filter('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'acl', d)}"
-
-PACKAGECONFIG[acl] = "--enable-acl,--disable-acl,acl,"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/zile/zile_2.6.4.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/zile/zile_2.6.4.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..eb677d1019
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/zile/zile_2.6.4.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+SUMMARY = "Zile is lossy Emacs"
+HOMEPAGE = "http://zile.sourceforge.net/"
+DEPENDS = "ncurses bdwgc glib-2.0 libgee autoconf-archive-native"
+
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=1ebbd3e34237af26da5dc08a4e440464"
+
+SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/zile/${BP}.tar.gz \
+           file://remove-help2man.patch \
+"
+
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "d5d44b85cb490643d0707e1a2186f3a32998c2f6eabaa9481479b65caeee57c0"
+
+inherit autotools pkgconfig vala
+
+# zile's Vala build writes generated sources (e.g. src/dummy.vala) back into the
+# source tree, so build in-tree. The shipped maintainer GNUmakefile aborts on
+# "make clean" before configure, so skip the preconfigure clean.
+B = "${S}"
+CLEANBROKEN = "1"
+
+# zile ships a pre-generated aclocal.m4 with the pkg-config macros but does not
+# carry pkg.m4 in its m4/ macro dir. With newer autoconf/automake, autoreconf
+# regenerates aclocal.m4 and can no longer find PKG_CHECK_EXISTS, failing with
+# "undefined or overquoted macro: PKG_CHECK_EXISTS". Stage pkg.m4 from the
+# native pkg-config so aclocal picks it up (m4/ is on its -I search path).
+do_configure:prepend() {
+    install -d ${S}/m4
+    install -m 0644 ${STAGING_DATADIR_NATIVE}/aclocal/pkg.m4 ${S}/m4/
+}
+
+do_install:append() {
+    rm -rf ${D}${libdir}/charset.alias
+    rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty ${D}${libdir} || true
+}
+
+# zile 2.6.x dropped the --enable-acl/--disable-acl configure switches
+# (file attribute handling moved to GLib/GIO), so no acl PACKAGECONFIG.