diff --git a/packages/x11/data/xkeyboard-config/patches/xkeyboard-config-995.01-2.36-fix-xkb-base-path.patch b/packages/x11/data/xkeyboard-config/patches/xkeyboard-config-995.01-2.36-fix-xkb-base-path.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ab2682ae1d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/x11/data/xkeyboard-config/patches/xkeyboard-config-995.01-2.36-fix-xkb-base-path.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+--- /meson.build
++++ /meson.build
+@@ -4,7 +4,10 @@
+         meson_version: '>= 0.54.0')
+ 
+ dir_data        = join_paths(get_option('prefix'), get_option('datadir'))
+-dir_xkb_base    = join_paths(dir_data, 'X11', 'xkb')
++dir_xkb_base    = get_option('xkb-base')
++if dir_xkb_base == ''
++    dir_xkb_base    = join_paths(dir_data, 'X11', 'xkb')
++endif
+ dir_xkb_rules   = join_paths(dir_xkb_base, 'rules')
+ dir_man7        = join_paths(get_option('prefix'), get_option('mandir'), 'man7')
+ dir_pkgconfig   = join_paths(dir_data, 'pkgconfig')
+