diff --git a/libgdiplus0-un-devel.patch b/libgdiplus0-un-devel.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6979da3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libgdiplus0-un-devel.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+From bec6f78249911294447e975718e8aa2af07a0098 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?Matthias=20Mail=C3=A4nder?=
+ <Mailaender@users.noreply.github.com>
+Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2016 22:06:54 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] reference libgdiplus with the proper .so name
+
+---
+ configure.ac | 6 ++++++
+ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
+index 568cb22..98a9697 100644
+--- a/configure.ac
++++ b/configure.ac
+@@ -3250,6 +3250,12 @@ AC_ARG_WITH([libgdiplus],
+ 
+ # default install location
+ libgdiplus_install_loc=libgdiplus${libsuffix}
++case "$host" in
++    *-*-*linux*)
++    libgdiplus_install_loc=libgdiplus${libsuffix}.0
++    ;;
++esac
++
+ case $with_libgdiplus in
+     no|installed)
+     libgdiplus_loc=
diff --git a/mono-core.changes b/mono-core.changes
index 5b6d7e8..8a166a5 100644
--- a/mono-core.changes
+++ b/mono-core.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun Jan  3 21:37:33 UTC 2016 - mailaender@opensuse.org
+
+- add libgdiplus0-un-devel.patch to fix boo#944754
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Dec 11 08:32:06 UTC 2015 - normand@linux.vnet.ibm.com
 
diff --git a/mono-core.spec b/mono-core.spec
index 664d93c..350124f 100644
--- a/mono-core.spec
+++ b/mono-core.spec
@@ -50,6 +50,8 @@ Patch10:	update_elf_abiv2_testcases.patch
 Patch11:	partial_sharing_false_4_powerpc.patch
 Patch12:	fix_exception_when_reading_from_timezone_file.patch
 ##################
+# PATCH-FIX-UPSTREAM https://github.com/mono/mono/pull/2394
+Patch13:        libgdiplus0-un-devel.patch
 BuildRequires:  autoconf
 BuildRequires:  automake
 BuildRequires:  bison
@@ -134,6 +136,7 @@ technologies that have been submitted to the ECMA for standardization.
 %patch10 -p1
 %patch11 -p1
 %patch12 -p1
+%patch13 -p1
 
 %build
 NOCONFIGURE="yes" ./autogen.sh