diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/startup-notification/startup-notification-0.12/obsolete_automake_macros.patch b/meta/recipes-graphics/startup-notification/startup-notification-0.12/obsolete_automake_macros.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9e86f2b2e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/startup-notification/startup-notification-0.12/obsolete_automake_macros.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+Upstream-Status: Submitted [https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59097]
+
+Signed-off-by: Marko Lindqvist <cazfi74@gmail.com>
+diff -Nurd startup-notification-0.12/configure.in startup-notification-0.12/configure.in
+--- startup-notification-0.12/configure.in	2011-05-16 17:29:20.000000000 +0300
++++ startup-notification-0.12/configure.in	2013-01-07 06:00:48.921905409 +0200
+@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
+ AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(libsn/sn-launchee.c)
+
+ AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
+-AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)
++AC_CONFIG_HEADERS(config.h)
+
+ # Honor aclocal flags
+ AC_SUBST(ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS, "\${ACLOCAL_FLAGS}")
diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/startup-notification/startup-notification_0.12.bb b/meta/recipes-graphics/startup-notification/startup-notification_0.12.bb
index 559818702e..036058aca2 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-graphics/startup-notification/startup-notification_0.12.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/startup-notification/startup-notification_0.12.bb
@@ -19,7 +19,9 @@ DEPENDS = "virtual/libx11 libsm xcb-util"
 
 inherit autotools pkgconfig
 
-SRC_URI = "http://www.freedesktop.org/software/startup-notification/releases/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.gz"
+SRC_URI = "http://www.freedesktop.org/software/startup-notification/releases/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.gz \
+           file://obsolete_automake_macros.patch \
+"
 
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "2cd77326d4dcaed9a5a23a1232fb38e9"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "3c391f7e930c583095045cd2d10eb73a64f085c7fde9d260f2652c7cb3cfbe4a"