diff --git a/giflib-automake-1_13.patch b/giflib-automake-1_13.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1bc8253
--- /dev/null
+++ b/giflib-automake-1_13.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+Index: b/configure.ac
+===================================================================
+--- a/configure.ac
++++ b/configure.ac
+@@ -5,11 +5,11 @@ AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([gnu dist-bzip2 -Wall])
+ dnl Make builds less verbose.  Shuts off Makefile portability checks.
+ m4_ifdef([AM_SILENT_RULES], [AM_SILENT_RULES([yes])])
+ 
+ dnl Note: config.h is not used in the current build
+ dnl We leave this in place only to suppress an error message at autogen time
+-AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)
++AC_CONFIG_HEADERS(config.h)
+ AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
+ 
+ dnl Checks for programs.
+ AC_PROG_CC_STDC
+ AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS
diff --git a/giflib.changes b/giflib.changes
index 9db00ba..2c3da1f 100644
--- a/giflib.changes
+++ b/giflib.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sat Mar  2 10:13:17 UTC 2013 - seife+obs@b1-systems.com
+
+- add giflib-automake-1_13.patch, fix build with automake-1.13.1
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Jan 11 22:13:53 UTC 2013 - jengelh@inai.de
 
diff --git a/giflib.spec b/giflib.spec
index ee3c17d..4a67f1f 100644
--- a/giflib.spec
+++ b/giflib.spec
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ Source:         giflib-%{version}.tar.bz2
 Source2:        baselibs.conf
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 Patch:          giflib-visibility.patch
+Patch1:         giflib-automake-1_13.patch
 BuildRequires:  libtool >= 2
 BuildRequires:  xorg-x11-libICE-devel
 BuildRequires:  xorg-x11-libSM-devel
@@ -79,6 +80,7 @@ have expired, giflib can again be used instead of libungif.
 %setup -q
 # LT_INIT requires libtool >= 2
 %patch
+%patch1 -p1
 
 %build
 # USE __TIMESTAMP__ instead of __DATE__ , __TIME__