diff --git a/multimedia/smpeg/automake-fix.patch b/multimedia/smpeg/automake-fix.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2805d2a5c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/multimedia/smpeg/automake-fix.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
+# This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
+#
+# Filename: package/.../smpeg/automake-fix.patch
+# Copyright (C) 2008 The OpenSDE Project
+#
+# More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
+#
+# This patch file is dual-licensed. It is available under the license the
+# patched project is licensed under, as long as it is an OpenSource license
+# as defined at http://www.opensource.org/ (e.g. BSD, X11) or under the terms
+# of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
+# Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
+# version.
+# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
+
+diff -Nur smpeg-2003-05-09-orig/configure.in smpeg-2003-05-09/configure.in
+--- smpeg-2003-05-09-orig/configure.in	2008-03-10 06:45:53.000000000 +0000
++++ smpeg-2003-05-09/configure.in	2008-03-10 06:46:31.000000000 +0000
+@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@
+ AM_PROG_LIBTOOL
+ AC_PROG_INSTALL
+ 
++AM_PROG_AS
++
+ dnl Ugh.
+ AS="$CC"
+ CCAS="$CC"
+