diff --git a/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gnome-terminal/gnome-terminal/0001-Add-W_EXITCODE-macro-for-non-glibc-systems.patch b/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gnome-terminal/gnome-terminal/0001-Add-W_EXITCODE-macro-for-non-glibc-systems.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a69390eb2b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gnome-terminal/gnome-terminal/0001-Add-W_EXITCODE-macro-for-non-glibc-systems.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+From f231cecc151930fd5b6309da317a8c5bc6001f38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?Andreas=20M=C3=BCller?= <schnitzeltony@gmail.com>
+Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2019 15:55:54 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] Add W_EXITCODE macro for non-glibc systems
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+Upstream-Status: Pending
+
+Signed-off-by: Andreas Müller <schnitzeltony@gmail.com>
+---
+ src/terminal.c | 6 ++++++
+ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/src/terminal.c b/src/terminal.c
+index d06ce35..6284e4c 100644
+--- a/src/terminal.c
++++ b/src/terminal.c
+@@ -47,6 +47,12 @@
+ GS_DEFINE_CLEANUP_FUNCTION0(TerminalOptions*, gs_local_options_free, terminal_options_free)
+ #define gs_free_options __attribute__ ((cleanup(gs_local_options_free)))
+ 
++/* fix for musl */
++#ifndef W_EXITCODE
++#define W_EXITCODE(ret, sig) ((ret) << 8 | (sig))
++#endif
++
++
+ /* Wait-for-exit helper */
+ 
+ typedef struct {
+-- 
+2.21.0
+
diff --git a/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gnome-terminal/gnome-terminal_3.34.2.bb b/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gnome-terminal/gnome-terminal_3.34.2.bb
index d688176d53..ffbabbf88d 100644
--- a/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gnome-terminal/gnome-terminal_3.34.2.bb
+++ b/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gnome-terminal/gnome-terminal_3.34.2.bb
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ DEPENDS = " \
 
 SRC_URI[archive.md5sum] = "13fa9f5f459481c7f05b6964c470ef16"
 SRC_URI[archive.sha256sum] = "3bd723f4058ec014da4715db4181b7d73eccc797b85ad5e6236996951c01803d"
+SRC_URI += "file://0001-Add-W_EXITCODE-macro-for-non-glibc-systems.patch"
 
 EXTRA_OECONF += " \
     --disable-search-provider \