diff --git a/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gnome-control-center/gnome-control-center/0001-build-Fix-USER_DIR_MODE-value-in-config.h.patch b/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gnome-control-center/gnome-control-center/0001-build-Fix-USER_DIR_MODE-value-in-config.h.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..01922fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gnome-control-center/gnome-control-center/0001-build-Fix-USER_DIR_MODE-value-in-config.h.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+From 37a6b940cb83d97b808da77f397e34100beb263f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?I=C3=B1igo=20Mart=C3=ADnez?= <inigomartinez@gmail.com>
+Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2018 23:06:40 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] build: Fix `USER_DIR_MODE` value in config.h
+
+meson defines `USER_DIR_MODE` with a raw octal value to be used as
+the default permissions when creating the user's configuration
+directory.
+
+However, meson does not support raw octal values[0], so the define
+misses the initial `0` value. Due to this, the directory is created
+with wrong permissions.
+
+This has been changed to use the octal value as a string in meson,
+so the definition has the proper value.
+
+Fixes #49
+
+[0] https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/2047
+---
+ meson.build | 4 +++-
+ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
+index fb74d04d1..ae1a897b3 100644
+--- a/meson.build
++++ b/meson.build
+@@ -44,7 +44,9 @@ foreach define: set_defines
+   config_h.set_quoted(define[0], define[1])
+ endforeach
+ 
+-config_h.set('USER_DIR_MODE', 0700,
++# meson does not support octal values, so it must be handled as a
++# string. See: https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/2047
++config_h.set('USER_DIR_MODE', '0700',
+              description: 'Permissions for creating the user\'s config, cache and data directories')
+ 
+ # compiler flags
+-- 
+2.19.1
+