diff --git a/meta-openmoko/packages/libspiff/files/makefile.patch b/meta-openmoko/packages/libspiff/files/makefile.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..87ec9a345c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-openmoko/packages/libspiff/files/makefile.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+---
+ Makefile.am |    2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+--- libspiff-0.8.3.orig/Makefile.am
++++ libspiff-0.8.3/Makefile.am
+@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
+ ## Process this file with automake to produce Makefile.in
+-AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = 1.10.1 gnu dist-zip dist-bzip2 dist-lzma subdir-objects
++AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = 1.10 gnu dist-zip dist-bzip2 subdir-objects
+ 
+ lib_LTLIBRARIES = libspiff.la
+ 
+ bin_PROGRAMS = \
+ 	examples/check/spiff_check \
diff --git a/meta-openmoko/packages/libspiff/libspiff_0.8.2.bb b/meta-openmoko/packages/libspiff/libspiff_0.8.3.bb
similarity index 86%
rename from meta-openmoko/packages/libspiff/libspiff_0.8.2.bb
rename to meta-openmoko/packages/libspiff/libspiff_0.8.3.bb
index 06be4b3aa4..f91005ec8a 100644
--- a/meta-openmoko/packages/libspiff/libspiff_0.8.2.bb
+++ b/meta-openmoko/packages/libspiff/libspiff_0.8.3.bb
@@ -5,7 +5,9 @@ LICENSE = "BSD"
 DEPENDS = "expat liburiparser"
 
 SRC_URI = "${SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR}/libspiff/libspiff-${PV}.tar.bz2 \
-           file://autofoo.patch;patch=1"
+           file://autofoo.patch;patch=1 \
+	   file://makefile.patch;patch=1"
+
 S = "${WORKDIR}/libspiff-${PV}"
 
 inherit autotools pkgconfig lib_package