diff --git a/packages/x11/other/fontconfig/meta b/packages/x11/other/fontconfig/meta
index 8ed23cf82f..e11c720b4c 100644
--- a/packages/x11/other/fontconfig/meta
+++ b/packages/x11/other/fontconfig/meta
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 ################################################################################
 
 PKG_NAME="fontconfig"
-PKG_VERSION="2.9.0"
+PKG_VERSION="2.10.0"
 PKG_REV="1"
 PKG_ARCH="any"
 PKG_LICENSE="OSS"
diff --git a/packages/x11/other/fontconfig/patches/fontconfig-2.10.0-confdir.patch b/packages/x11/other/fontconfig/patches/fontconfig-2.10.0-confdir.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..741dc201cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/x11/other/fontconfig/patches/fontconfig-2.10.0-confdir.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -Naur fontconfig-2.10.0-old/fontconfig.pc.in fontconfig-2.10.0-new/fontconfig.pc.in
+--- fontconfig-2.10.0-old/fontconfig.pc.in	2012-05-31 19:26:10.000000000 -0700
++++ fontconfig-2.10.0-new/fontconfig.pc.in	2012-07-19 08:27:33.000000000 -0700
+@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
+ sysconfdir=@sysconfdir@
+ localstatedir=@localstatedir@
+ PACKAGE=@PACKAGE@
+-confdir=@confdir@
++confdir=@baseconfigdir@
+ cachedir=@fc_cachedir@
+ 
+ Name: Fontconfig