diff --git a/packages/devel/glib/package.mk b/packages/devel/glib/package.mk
index 26043f9edd..1befd7dd08 100644
--- a/packages/devel/glib/package.mk
+++ b/packages/devel/glib/package.mk
@@ -37,10 +37,6 @@ have_c99_snprintf=false
 growing_stack=false
 va_val_copy=false"
 
-pre_configure_target() {
-  LDFLAGS+=" -lz"
-}
-
 post_makeinstall_target() {
   rm -rf $INSTALL/usr/bin
   rm -rf $INSTALL/usr/lib/gdbus-2.0
diff --git a/packages/devel/glib/patches/001_drop-build-tests.patch b/packages/devel/glib/patches/001_drop-build-tests.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..dd0b5cb501
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/devel/glib/patches/001_drop-build-tests.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+diff -Naur glib-2.61.1.org/gio/meson.build glib-2.61.1/gio/meson.build
+--- glib-2.61.1.org/gio/meson.build	2019-05-24 19:00:33.000000000 +0200
++++ glib-2.61.1/gio/meson.build	2019-08-26 09:21:14.893507207 +0200
+@@ -994,8 +994,3 @@
+ endif
+ 
+ subdir('fam')
+-# Don’t build the tests unless we can run them (either natively or in an exe wrapper)
+-build_tests = not meson.is_cross_build() or (meson.is_cross_build() and meson.has_exe_wrapper())
+-if build_tests
+-    subdir('tests')
+-endif
+\ Kein Zeilenumbruch am Dateiende.
+diff -Naur glib-2.61.1.org/glib/meson.build glib-2.61.1/glib/meson.build
+--- glib-2.61.1.org/glib/meson.build	2019-05-24 19:00:33.000000000 +0200
++++ glib-2.61.1/glib/meson.build	2019-08-26 09:21:22.941561248 +0200
+@@ -459,8 +459,3 @@
+     install : true)
+ endif
+ 
+-# Don’t build the tests unless we can run them (either natively or in an exe wrapper)
+-build_tests = not meson.is_cross_build() or (meson.is_cross_build() and meson.has_exe_wrapper())
+-if build_tests
+-  subdir('tests')
+-endif
+\ Kein Zeilenumbruch am Dateiende.
+diff -Naur glib-2.61.1.org/gobject/meson.build glib-2.61.1/gobject/meson.build
+--- glib-2.61.1.org/gobject/meson.build	2019-05-24 19:00:33.000000000 +0200
++++ glib-2.61.1/gobject/meson.build	2019-08-26 09:21:28.981601802 +0200
+@@ -166,8 +166,3 @@
+     install : true)
+ endif
+ 
+-# Don’t build the tests unless we can run them (either natively or in an exe wrapper)
+-build_tests = not meson.is_cross_build() or (meson.is_cross_build() and meson.has_exe_wrapper())
+-if build_tests
+-  subdir('tests')
+-endif
+\ Kein Zeilenumbruch am Dateiende.
+diff -Naur glib-2.61.1.org/meson.build glib-2.61.1/meson.build
+--- glib-2.61.1.org/meson.build	2019-05-24 19:00:33.000000000 +0200
++++ glib-2.61.1/meson.build	2019-08-26 09:21:08.029461110 +0200
+@@ -2045,11 +2045,6 @@
+ subdir('gmodule')
+ subdir('gio')
+ subdir('fuzzing')
+-# Don’t build the tests unless we can run them (either natively or in an exe wrapper)
+-build_tests = not meson.is_cross_build() or (meson.is_cross_build() and meson.has_exe_wrapper())
+-if build_tests
+-  subdir('tests')
+-endif
+ 
+ # xgettext is optional (on Windows for instance)
+ if find_program('xgettext', required : get_option('nls')).found()