diff --git a/packages/security/gnutls/meta b/packages/security/gnutls/meta
index 23c3ad27d2..0a3c45a94d 100644
--- a/packages/security/gnutls/meta
+++ b/packages/security/gnutls/meta
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 ################################################################################
 
 PKG_NAME="gnutls"
-PKG_VERSION="3.0.7"
+PKG_VERSION="3.0.20"
 PKG_REV="1"
 PKG_ARCH="any"
 PKG_LICENSE="LGPL"
diff --git a/packages/security/gnutls/patches/gnutls-3.0.20-automake.patch b/packages/security/gnutls/patches/gnutls-3.0.20-automake.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..833436011c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/security/gnutls/patches/gnutls-3.0.20-automake.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+diff -Naur gnutls-3.0.20/configure.ac gnutls-3.0.20.patch/configure.ac
+--- gnutls-3.0.20/configure.ac	2012-05-26 09:31:17.000000000 +0200
++++ gnutls-3.0.20.patch/configure.ac	2012-06-13 22:02:17.364789323 +0200
+@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
+ AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
+ AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
+ 
+-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11 no-dist-gzip dist-xz dist-lzip -Wall -Werror -Wno-override])
++AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11 no-dist-gzip dist-xz dist-lzip -Wall -Wno-override])
+ m4_ifdef([AM_SILENT_RULES], [AM_SILENT_RULES([yes])])
+ AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)
+ 
+@@ -35,6 +35,10 @@
+ 
+ dnl Checks for programs.
+ AC_PROG_CC
++
++# automake 1.12 seems to require this, but automake 1.11 doesn't recognize it
++m4_pattern_allow([AM_PROG_AR])
++AM_PROG_AR
+ AM_PROG_AS
+ AC_PROG_CXX
+ gl_EARLY