This is the automake'd version of the patch
ovsdbmonitor-move-to-its-own-data-directory.patch.  It only updates
Makefile.in rather than ovsdb/ovsdbmonitor/automake.mk.

diff -aur openvswitch-1.4.0.orig/debian/ovsdbmonitor.install openvswitch-1.4.0/debian/ovsdbmonitor.install
--- openvswitch-1.4.0.orig/debian/ovsdbmonitor.install	2012-01-30 19:44:54.000000000 -0800
+++ openvswitch-1.4.0/debian/ovsdbmonitor.install	2012-03-01 15:29:30.661090604 -0800
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 usr/bin/ovsdbmonitor
-usr/share/openvswitch/ovsdbmonitor
+usr/share/ovsdbmonitor
diff -aur openvswitch-1.4.0.orig/Makefile.in openvswitch-1.4.0/Makefile.in
--- openvswitch-1.4.0.orig/Makefile.in	2012-01-30 23:09:16.000000000 -0800
+++ openvswitch-1.4.0/Makefile.in	2012-03-01 15:29:35.927167987 -0800
@@ -1589,7 +1589,7 @@
 	ovsdb/ovsdbmonitor/Ui_MainWindow.py \
 	ovsdb/ovsdbmonitor/qt4reactor.py
 
-ovsdbmonitordir = ${pkgdatadir}/ovsdbmonitor
+ovsdbmonitordir = ${datadir}/ovsdbmonitor
 @BUILD_OVSDBMONITOR_TRUE@ovsdbmonitor_DATA = $(ovsdbmonitor_pyfiles)
 update_spec = \
   ($(ro_shell) && sed -e 's,[@]VERSION[@],$(VERSION),g') \