diff --git a/packages/x11/other/ratpoison/patches/ratpoison-1.4.5-automake_1.13.patch b/packages/x11/other/ratpoison/patches/ratpoison-1.4.5-automake_1.13.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2b59f458bd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/x11/other/ratpoison/patches/ratpoison-1.4.5-automake_1.13.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -Naur ratpoison-1.4.5-old/configure.in ratpoison-1.4.5-new/configure.in
+--- ratpoison-1.4.5-old/configure.in	2009-07-12 14:01:04.000000000 -0700
++++ ratpoison-1.4.5-new/configure.in	2013-01-03 19:26:12.000000000 -0800
+@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
+ 
+ AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
+ 
+-AM_CONFIG_HEADER(src/config.h)
++AC_CONFIG_HEADERS(src/config.h)
+ 
+ dnl by default turn off debugging
+ AC_MSG_CHECKING(whether to enable debugging)