diff --git a/recipes-qt/qt5/qtbase-5.0.2/0017-Rename-qAbs-Function-for-timeval.patch b/recipes-qt/qt5/qtbase-5.0.2/0017-Rename-qAbs-Function-for-timeval.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d6ab7637bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-qt/qt5/qtbase-5.0.2/0017-Rename-qAbs-Function-for-timeval.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+From 126d2c4beff40bc51a1912a752b23c178eac59b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?David=20E=2E=20Narv=C3=A1ez?= <david.narvaez@computer.org>
+Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 23:14:50 -0500
+Subject: [PATCH 17/17] Rename qAbs Function for timeval
+
+This decouples it from qAbs which is declared as a constexpr under
+certain compilation flags and enables for qtbase to be compiled with
+GCC 4.8
+
+Change-Id: I78e02256ffc8b460ca74ae5241e77dfac4e09ba9
+Reviewed-by: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira@intel.com>
+
+Upstream-Status: Backported from stable branch
+Signed-off-by: Martin Jansa <Martin.Jansa@gmail.com>
+---
+ src/corelib/kernel/qtimerinfo_unix.cpp | 5 ++---
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/src/corelib/kernel/qtimerinfo_unix.cpp b/src/corelib/kernel/qtimerinfo_unix.cpp
+index 0eee425..7a29247 100644
+--- a/src/corelib/kernel/qtimerinfo_unix.cpp
++++ b/src/corelib/kernel/qtimerinfo_unix.cpp
+@@ -94,8 +94,7 @@ timeval QTimerInfoList::updateCurrentTime()
+ 
+ #if ((_POSIX_MONOTONIC_CLOCK-0 <= 0) && !defined(Q_OS_MAC) && !defined(Q_OS_INTEGRITY)) || defined(QT_BOOTSTRAPPED)
+ 
+-template <>
+-timeval qAbs(const timeval &t)
++timeval qAbsTimeval(const timeval &t)
+ {
+     timeval tmp = t;
+     if (tmp.tv_sec < 0) {
+@@ -144,7 +143,7 @@ bool QTimerInfoList::timeChanged(timeval *delta)
+     timeval tickGranularity;
+     tickGranularity.tv_sec = 0;
+     tickGranularity.tv_usec = msPerTick * 1000;
+-    return elapsedTimeTicks < ((qAbs(*delta) - tickGranularity) * 10);
++    return elapsedTimeTicks < ((qAbsTimeval(*delta) - tickGranularity) * 10);
+ }
+ 
+ /*
+-- 
+1.8.2.1
+
diff --git a/recipes-qt/qt5/qtbase_5.0.2.bb b/recipes-qt/qt5/qtbase_5.0.2.bb
index 89cfb7251a..c2cd97b636 100644
--- a/recipes-qt/qt5/qtbase_5.0.2.bb
+++ b/recipes-qt/qt5/qtbase_5.0.2.bb
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ PR = "${INC_PR}.0"
 
 SRC_URI += " \
     file://0016-Allow-tslib-to-be-specified-at-configure-time.patch \
+    file://0017-Rename-qAbs-Function-for-timeval.patch \
 "
 
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "a4fec8ed03867c4ee4fe5a46001a11f0"