diff --git a/package/lttng-babeltrace/0003-fix-uuid-support-detection-on-static-build.patch b/package/lttng-babeltrace/0003-fix-uuid-support-detection-on-static-build.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..875aa88f6e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/lttng-babeltrace/0003-fix-uuid-support-detection-on-static-build.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+From 2741f55be80ae8af169ae795ea28d2a39c18fa60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
+Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 21:56:32 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] configure: fix uuid support detection on static build
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+This change adds uuid detection using pkg-config helper before falling
+back on the standard AC_CHECK_LIB detection for platforms missing
+pkg-config.
+
+AC_CHECK_LIB function achieves its test by trying to link against the
+requested library, without taking care of its dependency
+requirements/flags that may differ between different targets.
+Therefore, in case of static build, it can fail on the uuid detection
+like [1], because the uuid's dependency flags (regarding gettext) are
+missing.
+
+Instead, using pkg-config to do the check will take care of getting and
+setting all required flags.
+
+This issue [1] has been triggered on Buildroot farms.
+
+[1] http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/43b/43b98ddf9eb44152ed9ac4a98d887af14831d8da/build-end.log
+
+Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
+Signed-off-by: Jérémie Galarneau <jeremie.galarneau@efficios.com>
+[Philippe: grabbed from this upstream patch:
+    https://github.com/efficios/babeltrace/commit/2741f55be80ae8af169ae795ea28d2a39c18fa60.patch
+]
+Signed-off-by: Philippe Proulx <eeppeliteloop@gmail.com>
+---
+ configure.ac | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++----------
+ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
+index 84f9000..2f5e3f8 100644
+--- a/configure.ac
++++ b/configure.ac
+@@ -163,24 +163,35 @@ AC_CHECK_FUNCS([uuid_generate],
+   link_with_libuuid=no
+ ],
+ [
+-  # Check for libuuid
+-  AC_CHECK_LIB([uuid], [uuid_generate],
++  # First, check the pkg-config module is available, otherwise explicitly check
++  # for libuuid, or uuid support in the C-library.
++  PKG_CHECK_MODULES([UUID], [uuid],
+   [
++    LIBS="${UUID_LIBS} ${LIBS}"
++    CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} ${UUID_CFLAGS}"
+     AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([BABELTRACE_HAVE_LIBUUID], 1, [Has libuuid support.])
+     link_with_libuuid=yes
+   ],
+   [
+-    # libuuid not found, check for uuid_create in libc.
+-    AC_CHECK_LIB([c], [uuid_create],
++    # Check for libuuid
++    AC_CHECK_LIB([uuid], [uuid_generate],
+     [
+-      AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([BABELTRACE_HAVE_LIBC_UUID], 1, [Has libc uuid support.])
+-      link_with_libc_uuid=yes
++      AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([BABELTRACE_HAVE_LIBUUID], 1, [Has libuuid support.])
++      link_with_libuuid=yes
+     ],
+     [
+-      # for MinGW32 we have our own internal implemenation of uuid using Windows functions.
+-      if test "x$MINGW32" = xno; then
+-        AC_MSG_ERROR([Cannot find libuuid uuid_generate nor libc uuid_create. Use [LDFLAGS]=-Ldir to specify their location.])
+-      fi
++      # libuuid not found, check for uuid_create in libc.
++      AC_CHECK_LIB([c], [uuid_create],
++      [
++        AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([BABELTRACE_HAVE_LIBC_UUID], 1, [Has libc uuid support.])
++        link_with_libc_uuid=yes
++      ],
++      [
++        # for MinGW32 we have our own internal implemenation of uuid using Windows functions.
++        if test "x$MINGW32" = xno; then
++          AC_MSG_ERROR([Cannot find libuuid uuid_generate nor libc uuid_create. Use [LDFLAGS]=-Ldir to specify their location.])
++        fi
++      ])
+     ])
+   ])
+ ])
diff --git a/package/lttng-babeltrace/lttng-babeltrace.mk b/package/lttng-babeltrace/lttng-babeltrace.mk
index 59327dbf5d..67b740656f 100644
--- a/package/lttng-babeltrace/lttng-babeltrace.mk
+++ b/package/lttng-babeltrace/lttng-babeltrace.mk
@@ -14,7 +14,9 @@ HOST_LTTNG_BABELTRACE_DEPENDENCIES = \
 	host-popt host-util-linux host-libglib2 host-pkgconf
 HOST_LTTNG_BABELTRACE_CONF_OPTS += --disable-debug-info
 
-# For 0002-m4-ax_lib_elfutils.m4-add-cache-variable.patch
+# For:
+#   0002-m4-ax_lib_elfutils.m4-add-cache-variable.patch
+#   0003-fix-uuid-support-detection-on-static-build.patch
 LTTNG_BABELTRACE_AUTORECONF = YES
 
 ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_ELFUTILS),y)