diff --git a/meta-citadel/recipes-desktop/mozjs/mozjs52.bb b/meta-citadel/recipes-desktop/mozjs/mozjs52.bb
index f327f8f..748e91f 100644
--- a/meta-citadel/recipes-desktop/mozjs/mozjs52.bb
+++ b/meta-citadel/recipes-desktop/mozjs/mozjs52.bb
@@ -5,7 +5,9 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://../../LICENSE;md5=815ca599c9df247a0c7f619bab123dad"
 
 RELEASE_VERSION = "mozjs-52.2.1gnome1"
 
-SRC_URI = "https://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/tarballs-needing-help/mozjs/${RELEASE_VERSION}.tar.gz"
+SRC_URI = "https://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/tarballs-needing-help/mozjs/${RELEASE_VERSION}.tar.gz \
+           file://0001-do-not-include-RequiredDefines.patch \
+           "
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "72bd9a715ed1ab70b2aebe92969f6b63"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "31697943b1dbbb51ba9aee35b8269a353c487d7af4d336010b90054dc4f9b0af"
 
@@ -35,6 +37,7 @@ EXTRA_OECONF = " \
     --with-intl-api \
     --disable-jemalloc \
     --disable-static \
+    --without-x \
 "
 
 
diff --git a/meta-citadel/recipes-desktop/mozjs/mozjs52/0001-do-not-include-RequiredDefines.patch b/meta-citadel/recipes-desktop/mozjs/mozjs52/0001-do-not-include-RequiredDefines.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5dad655
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-citadel/recipes-desktop/mozjs/mozjs52/0001-do-not-include-RequiredDefines.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From 488c8ee5ff98a2d1fb40553ff1db8b452f88a735 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: brl <bruce@subgraph.com>
+Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 14:51:11 -0500
+Subject: [PATCH] do not include RequiredDefines
+
+pkg-config does not correctly prepend sysroot to this
+---
+ js/src/js.pc.in | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/js/src/js.pc.in b/js/src/js.pc.in
+index 1efea33..f6614ff 100644
+--- a/js/src/js.pc.in
++++ b/js/src/js.pc.in
+@@ -8,4 +8,4 @@ Description: The Mozilla library for JavaScript
+ Version: @MOZILLA_VERSION@
+ Requires.private: @NSPR_PKGCONF_CHECK@
+ Libs: -L${libdir} -l@JS_LIBRARY_NAME@
+-Cflags: -include ${includedir}/@JS_LIBRARY_NAME@/js/RequiredDefines.h -I${includedir}/@JS_LIBRARY_NAME@
++Cflags: -I${includedir}/@JS_LIBRARY_NAME@
+-- 
+2.14.3
+