diff --git a/devel/gconf/patches/patch-backends_Makefile_in b/devel/gconf/patches/patch-backends_Makefile_in
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3a95aa075cc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devel/gconf/patches/patch-backends_Makefile_in
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+$OpenBSD: patch-backends_Makefile_in,v 1.1 2002/03/28 18:47:48 pvalchev Exp $
+--- backends/Makefile.in.orig	Mon Oct 29 11:55:39 2001
++++ backends/Makefile.in	Thu Mar 28 11:19:28 2002
+@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ libgconfbackend_xml_la_SOURCES = \
+ 	xml-backend.c
+ 
+ 
+-libgconfbackend_xml_la_LDFLAGS = -avoid-version -module
++libgconfbackend_xml_la_LDFLAGS = -avoid-version
+ libgconfbackend_xml_la_LIBADD = $(GLIB_LIBS) $(XML_LIBS)
+ 
+ libgconfbackend_bdb_la_SOURCES = bdb.c bdb.h bdb-backend.c val-encode.c val-encode.h dir-utils.c dir-utils.h