diff --git a/packages/graphics/Mesa/meta b/packages/graphics/Mesa/meta
index 330b369cb5..43b73709d0 100644
--- a/packages/graphics/Mesa/meta
+++ b/packages/graphics/Mesa/meta
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 ################################################################################
 
 PKG_NAME="Mesa"
-PKG_VERSION="7.11-rc2"
+PKG_VERSION="7.11-rc3"
 PKG_REV="1"
 PKG_ARCH="any"
 PKG_LICENSE="OSS"
diff --git a/packages/graphics/Mesa/patches/Mesa-7.11-rc3-llvm_so.patch b/packages/graphics/Mesa/patches/Mesa-7.11-rc3-llvm_so.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..378b1a7a70
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/graphics/Mesa/patches/Mesa-7.11-rc3-llvm_so.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -Naur Mesa-7.11-rc2-old/configure.ac Mesa-7.11-rc2-new/configure.ac
+--- Mesa-7.11-rc2-old/configure.ac	2011-07-19 16:39:56.000000000 -0700
++++ Mesa-7.11-rc2-new/configure.ac	2011-07-21 10:08:33.000000000 -0700
+@@ -1737,7 +1737,7 @@
+     if test "x$LLVM_CONFIG" != xno; then
+ 	LLVM_VERSION=`$LLVM_CONFIG --version`
+ 	LLVM_CFLAGS=`$LLVM_CONFIG --cppflags`
+-	LLVM_LIBS="`$LLVM_CONFIG --libs` -lstdc++"
++	LLVM_LIBS="-lLLVM-$LLVM_VERSION -lstdc++"
+ 
+ 	LLVM_LDFLAGS=`$LLVM_CONFIG --ldflags`
+ 	GALLIUM_DRIVERS_DIRS="$GALLIUM_DRIVERS_DIRS llvmpipe"