diff --git a/packages/x11/util/xorg-launch-helper/patches/xorg-launch-helper-automake-1.14.patch b/packages/x11/util/xorg-launch-helper/patches/xorg-launch-helper-automake-1.14.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cd32b73691
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/x11/util/xorg-launch-helper/patches/xorg-launch-helper-automake-1.14.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -Naur xorg-launch-helper-4/configure.ac xorg-launch-helper-4.patch/configure.ac
+--- xorg-launch-helper-4/configure.ac	2012-10-23 21:17:54.000000000 +0200
++++ xorg-launch-helper-4.patch/configure.ac	2013-12-06 15:57:17.948725894 +0100
+@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
+ 
+ AC_PREREQ([2.68])
+ AC_INIT([xorg-launch-helper], [4], [auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com])
+-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([-Wall -Werror foreign])
++AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([-Wall -Werror foreign subdir-objects])
+ AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile])
+ AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/main.c])
+ AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])