diff --git a/screen.changes b/screen.changes
index 9a8de9a..24aa451 100644
--- a/screen.changes
+++ b/screen.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Oct  9 07:47:52 UTC 2012 - lnt-sysadmin@lists.lrz.de
+
+- add use_locale.diff to fix --enable-use-locale configure option
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Sep 13 13:52:04 CEST 2012 - mls@suse.de
 
diff --git a/screen.spec b/screen.spec
index ac66e7e..4982644 100644
--- a/screen.spec
+++ b/screen.spec
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 # Please submit bugfixes or comments via http://bugs.opensuse.org/
 #
 
+
 Url:            http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/
 
 Name:           screen
@@ -44,6 +45,7 @@ Patch5:         sort_command.patch
 Patch6:         libtinfo.diff
 Patch7:         mappedcmd.diff
 Patch8:         styroptcrash.diff
+Patch9:         use_locale.diff
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 
 %description
@@ -64,6 +66,7 @@ Documentation: man page
 %patch6
 %patch7 -p2
 %patch8 -p2
+%patch9 -p1
 
 %build
 CFLAGS="-DMAXWIN=1000 $RPM_OPT_FLAGS" %configure --prefix=/usr --infodir=%{_infodir} \
@@ -71,7 +74,7 @@ CFLAGS="-DMAXWIN=1000 $RPM_OPT_FLAGS" %configure --prefix=/usr --infodir=%{_info
 				--with-socket-dir='(eff_uid ? "/var/run/uscreens" : "/var/run/screens")' \
 				--with-sys-screenrc=/etc/screenrc \
 				--with-pty-group=5 \
-				--enable-locale \
+				--enable-use-locale \
 				--enable-telnet \
 				--enable-colors256 \
 				--verbose
diff --git a/use_locale.diff b/use_locale.diff
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6d07a37
--- /dev/null
+++ b/use_locale.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+diff -Pdpru a/configure b/configure
+--- a/configure	2012-09-19 14:44:09.593017471 +0200
++++ b/configure	2012-09-19 15:20:44.406073384 +0200
+@@ -1338,7 +1339,7 @@ Optional Features:
+   --enable-FEATURE[=ARG]  include FEATURE [ARG=yes]
+   --disable-socket-dir    disable system wide socket-dir and use ~/.screen instead
+   --enable-pam            enable PAM support
+-  --enable-locale         use localized month/day names
++  --enable-use-locale     use localized month/day names
+   --enable-telnet         enable builtin telnet
+   --enable-colors256      enable support for 256 colors
+   --enable-rxvt_osc       enable support for rxvt OSC codes
+diff -Pdpru a/configure.in b/configure.in
+--- a/configure.in	2012-09-19 14:44:09.592017464 +0200
++++ b/configure.in	2012-09-19 15:21:45.555515336 +0200
+@@ -1265,7 +1276,7 @@ if test "$enable_pam" = "yes"; then
+        AC_MSG_RESULT(no);LIBS="$oldlibs")
+ fi
+ 
+-AC_ARG_ENABLE(use_locale, [  --enable-locale         use localized month/day names])
++AC_ARG_ENABLE(use_locale, [  --enable-use-locale    use localized month/day names])
+ if test "$enable_use_locale" = "yes"; then
+   AC_DEFINE(USE_LOCALE)
+ fi