diff --git a/valgrind-3.7.0-automake-1.11.2.patch b/valgrind-3.7.0-automake-1.11.2.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..74fcdfb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/valgrind-3.7.0-automake-1.11.2.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+diff -Nur valgrind-3.7.0.orig/coregrind/Makefile.am valgrind-3.7.0/coregrind/Makefile.am
+--- valgrind-3.7.0.orig/coregrind/Makefile.am	2011-10-27 12:55:06.000000000 +0200
++++ valgrind-3.7.0/coregrind/Makefile.am	2012-01-06 17:23:48.717115986 +0100
+@@ -495,7 +495,8 @@
+ 	m_gdbserver/powerpc-altivec64l.xml
+ 
+ # so as to make sure these get copied into the install tree
+-pkglib_DATA  = $(GDBSERVER_XML_FILES)
++vgdatadir = $(pkglibdir)
++vgdata_DATA  = $(GDBSERVER_XML_FILES)
+ 
+ # so as to make sure these get copied into the tarball
+ EXTRA_DIST  += $(GDBSERVER_XML_FILES)
+diff -Nur valgrind-3.7.0.orig/Makefile.am valgrind-3.7.0/Makefile.am
+--- valgrind-3.7.0.orig/Makefile.am	2011-10-26 23:24:45.000000000 +0200
++++ valgrind-3.7.0/Makefile.am	2012-01-06 17:23:17.445114847 +0100
+@@ -61,7 +61,8 @@
+ # default.supp, as it is built from the base .supp files at compile-time.
+ dist_noinst_DATA = $(SUPP_FILES)
+ 
+-pkglib_DATA = default.supp
++vgdatadir = $(pkglibdir)
++vgdata_DATA = default.supp
+ 
+ pkgconfigdir = $(libdir)/pkgconfig
+ pkgconfig_DATA = valgrind.pc
diff --git a/valgrind.changes b/valgrind.changes
index bdfad9e..edb161c 100644
--- a/valgrind.changes
+++ b/valgrind.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Apr 26 17:41:44 UTC 2012 - joop.boonen@opensuse.org
+
+- Added patch valgrind-3.7.0-automake-1.11.2.patch to fix automake issue
+  * See https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290719 
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Dec 29 09:33:04 CET 2011 - dmueller@suse.de
 
diff --git a/valgrind.spec b/valgrind.spec
index 8a7ba00..01109ea 100644
--- a/valgrind.spec
+++ b/valgrind.spec
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ Source0:        %{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
 # svn  di svn://svn.valgrind.org/vex/tags/VEX_3_5_0 svn://svn.valgrind.org/vex/branches/VEX_3_5_BRANCH > VEX_3_5_BRANCH.diff
 Patch1:         jit-register-unregister.diff
 Patch2:         glibc-2.15.diff
+# added automake 1.11.2 patch https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290719 algrind-3.7.0-automake-1.11.2.patch
+Patch3:         valgrind-3.7.0-automake-1.11.2.patch
 # during building the major version of glibc is built into the suppression file
 %define glibc_main_version %(getconf GNU_LIBC_VERSION | cut -d' ' -f2 | cut -d. -f1)
 %define glibc_major_version %(getconf GNU_LIBC_VERSION | cut -d' ' -f2 | cut -d. -f2)
@@ -94,6 +96,7 @@ Authors:
 
 %package devel
 Summary:        Memory Management Debugger
+Group:          Development/Tools/Debuggers
 Requires:       %name = %version
 
 %description devel
@@ -137,6 +140,7 @@ cd VEX
 cd ..
 %patch1
 %patch2
+%patch3 -p1
 
 %build
 %ifarch %arm