diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib-2.0/glib-2.0-configure-readlink.patch b/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib-2.0/glib-2.0-configure-readlink.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9759d11e3c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib-2.0/glib-2.0-configure-readlink.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+configure.ac: change readlink -f to -m
+
+Change "readlink -f" to "readlink -m" since $libdir/$with_runtime_libdir
+may not exist.
+
+This patch should go to the upstream, I will send it sooner.
+
+Upstream-Status: Pending
+
+Signed-off-by: Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com>
+---
+ configure.ac | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
+--- a/configure.ac
++++ b/configure.ac
+@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ AC_ARG_WITH(runtime-libdir,
+            [],
+ 	   [with_runtime_libdir=""])
+ GLIB_RUNTIME_LIBDIR="$with_runtime_libdir"
+-ABS_GLIB_RUNTIME_LIBDIR="`readlink -f $libdir/$with_runtime_libdir`"
++ABS_GLIB_RUNTIME_LIBDIR="`readlink -m $libdir/$with_runtime_libdir`"
+ AC_SUBST(GLIB_RUNTIME_LIBDIR)
+ AC_SUBST(ABS_GLIB_RUNTIME_LIBDIR)
+ AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_GLIB_RUNTIME_LIBDIR, [test "x$with_runtime_libdir" != "x"])
+-- 
+1.8.1.2
+
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib-2.0_2.36.4.bb b/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib-2.0_2.36.4.bb
index 0918bf59b0..d62c1fd36e 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib-2.0_2.36.4.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib-2.0_2.36.4.bb
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ SRC_URI = "${GNOME_MIRROR}/glib/${SHRT_VER}/glib-${PV}.tar.xz \
            file://Makefile-ptest.patch \
            file://add-march-i486-into-CFLAGS-automatically.patch \
            file://run-ptest \
+           file://glib-2.0-configure-readlink.patch \
           "
 
 SRC_URI_append_class-native = " file://glib-gettextize-dir.patch"