diff --git a/packages/devel/json-c/patches/json-c-automake-1.13.patch b/packages/devel/json-c/patches/json-c-automake-1.13.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7a914a6922
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/devel/json-c/patches/json-c-automake-1.13.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -Naur json-c-0.9/configure.in json-c-0.9.patch/configure.in
+--- json-c-0.9/configure.in	2009-01-06 23:55:33.000000000 +0100
++++ json-c-0.9.patch/configure.in	2013-02-01 16:45:09.890830041 +0100
+@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
+ # Checks for libraries.
+ 
+ # Checks for header files.
+-AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)
++AC_CONFIG_HEADERS(config.h)
+ AC_HEADER_STDC
+ AC_CHECK_HEADERS(fcntl.h limits.h strings.h syslog.h unistd.h [sys/param.h] stdarg.h)
+