diff --git a/contrib/src/gnutls/downgrade-gettext-requirement.patch b/contrib/src/gnutls/downgrade-gettext-requirement.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1db92c85a57f2b6a8fe5ed2b679c645c28ec1673
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/src/gnutls/downgrade-gettext-requirement.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+--- gnutls-3.4.6/configure.ac	2015-10-07 04:21:22.000000000 -0400
++++ gnutls-3.4.6/configure.ac	2015-11-04 16:17:24.705546543 -0500
+@@ -200 +200 @@
+-AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.19])
++AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.18.3])
diff --git a/contrib/src/gnutls/rules.mak b/contrib/src/gnutls/rules.mak
index 5d756e3f1d68d7c1413918c56bc864ec400df3cc..183a6b1be339c8f66788acbfd7ebbca3fb3451ba 100644
--- a/contrib/src/gnutls/rules.mak
+++ b/contrib/src/gnutls/rules.mak
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ gnutls: gnutls-$(GNUTLS_VERSION).tar.xz .sum-gnutls
 	$(UNPACK)
 ifdef HAVE_WIN32
 	$(APPLY) $(SRC)/gnutls/gnutls-win32.patch
+else
+	$(APPLY) $(SRC)/gnutls/downgrade-gettext-requirement.patch
 endif
 ifdef HAVE_ANDROID
 	$(APPLY) $(SRC)/gnutls/no-create-time-h.patch