diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/libedit/libedit/stdc-predef.patch b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/libedit/libedit/stdc-predef.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c95cdc9d2d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/libedit/libedit/stdc-predef.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+__STDC_ISO_10646__ is defined in stdc-predef.h
+therefore include it to see if its there on a platform
+
+Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
+
+Index: libedit-20160903-3.1/src/chartype.h
+===================================================================
+--- libedit-20160903-3.1.orig/src/chartype.h
++++ libedit-20160903-3.1/src/chartype.h
+@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
+ #ifndef _h_chartype_f
+ #define _h_chartype_f
+ 
++#include <stdc-predef.h>
+ /* Ideally we should also test the value of the define to see if it
+  * supports non-BMP code points without requiring UTF-16, but nothing
+  * seems to actually advertise this properly, despite Unicode 3.1 having
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/libedit/libedit_20160618-3.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/libedit/libedit_20160903-3.1.bb
similarity index 64%
rename from meta-oe/recipes-devtools/libedit/libedit_20160618-3.1.bb
rename to meta-oe/recipes-devtools/libedit/libedit_20160903-3.1.bb
index bda421d812..90b5a1d392 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/libedit/libedit_20160618-3.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/libedit/libedit_20160903-3.1.bb
@@ -12,9 +12,10 @@ inherit autotools
 
 # upstream site does not allow wget's User-Agent
 FETCHCMD_wget += "-U bitbake"
-SRC_URI = "http://www.thrysoee.dk/editline/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.gz"
+SRC_URI = "http://www.thrysoee.dk/editline/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.gz \
+           file://stdc-predef.patch \
+          "
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "0467d27684c453a351fbcefebbcb16a3"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "0ccbd2e7d46097f136fcb1aaa0d5bc24e23bb73f57d25bee5a852a683eaa7567"
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/${BPN}-${PV}"
-
-SRC_URI[md5sum] = "b6e60f326a3fce91bea1a6fe4700af58"
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "b6b159c0c6ec8a7f349ea2a75d8b960efa346c462c1ac4921f1ac0de85a9f5d6"