I just checked on Debian unstable and the problem happen on Debian unstable
package version 0.3.17-2.
I am attaching a patch that fix this problem according to suggested by Matthias.
Index: liboil/liboil-0.3.17/debian/control
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Bug #744616 [src:liboil] liboil: run dh-autoreconf to update config.{sub,guess}
and {libtool,aclocal}.m4
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